Archive for the 'Federal Reserve' Category

US Subprime Loans by State (January 2008)

Published by Catherine on June 11, 2008 in Choropleth Map, Debt, Federal Reserve, Interactive Graphic and United States. 2 Comments

I found this interactive graphic on a site called Many Eyes displaying data about subprime loans by state. Click on the thumbnail to load the graph.

6/29/2008 I had to remove the interactive graph from my site because it was crashing the site search.

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Has Middle America’s Wages Stagnated?

Published by Catherine on November 4, 2007 in Federal Reserve, Income - Middle, Line Graph, United States and Wages. 3 Comments

{Click on the image to take a closer look}
Avg Hourly Earnings magnafing glass

I found a Federal Reserve article that analyzed the change in Average Hourly Earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers. After adjusting for inflation using the Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) {instead of the Consumer Price Index-Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W)} and including an estimate for worker’s benefits, the author concluded that workers’ hourly earnings (wages plus benefits) actually increased by 16% over 30 years (1975-2005) rather than decreased. Here, I graphed the full history, 1964-2006, but used the approach laid out in the article to show the effect of inflation and benefits. BTW, if you earned $16.76 an hour in 2006 that gave you an annual income of $33,520 (assuming you worked full-time).

See also:
Average Income in the United States
Total Income of Top, Middle, & Bottom

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Addendum: This was past on to me from a reader who found it on Marginal Revolution

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