Single women move to Nevada; Cleveland = Poor

From today's WSJ; some numbers from the Census Bureau. There's ammo in here for lots of folks: Bush haters, women, anti--Clevelanders, nySportsJournalists.com. And any of you single ladies looking to trap find a man, loooks like Vegas or Reno might be prime spots, unless you're a big fan of North Dakota.



The Census Bureau yesterday released its annual snapshot of Americans---all 299,599,204 of us. Here are some highlights from that report.

-- The median family income of households rose 1.1% to $45,326 in 2005 after falling for five years in a row.

-- The median earnings of men working full-time last year declined 1.8% to $41,386.

-- The median woman's earnings declined 1.3% to $31,855.

-- Women earned less than men in every state and region. The gender wage gap was the widest in the finance/insurance/legal industries.

-- The gap between the richest and poorest American widened in the last year.

-- The top fifth of American households claimed 50.4% of all income.

-- About 37 million Americans, or 12.6% of the population, are living in poverty.

-- The average household income for a person living in poverty was $19,971.

-- Median income grew strongest in the Northeast (up 2.9%) but declined in the Midwest.

-- Americans at the top of the income ladder tended to live in metropolitan areas; people at the bottom tended to live in rural areas.

-- The three richest counties in the US were in the Washington DC area--Loudoun and Fairfax in Virginia and Howard in Maryland.

--The two cities with the highest poverty rate (44%) were Camden, NJ and College Station, TX. Cleveland had the highest poverty rate (32.4%) among big cities.

-- The number of uninsured Americans rose by 1.4 million to 46.6 million, or 15.9% of the population.

--The ratio of single men to single women was highest in Nevada and North Dakota; lowest in the District of Columbia and Louisiana.

-- New Yorkers were faced with the highest average daily commute times--31.2 minutes. North Dakotans could do it in 16.3 minutes.

 

Fran could always pull a Rose-of-Sharon and suckle the destitute with his man-teets. [/stillbitter]

Until BYH moves and pulls down the average.

 

I thought the man-to-woman ratio in Alaska was so out of whack they had to put out a beefcake catalog in the Lower 48 to entice women to move north.

Or was it so much out of whack that the Census Bureau gave Alaska a pass?

College Station ... that can't be right. No way. Bryan / College Station consistently has Texas' lowest unemployment rate. And they ain't all digging ditches for minimum wage.

 

It's nice to find out that I'm actually living in poverty -- or damn near close to it.

 

The number of newspapers owned by only a few select media group grew by astronomical proportions