The Rent Is Too Damn High (For the Very Poor)
More housing charts! I came across these while reading about the shortage of starter homes, and they were interesting in different ways. First up is a chart from Bloomberg that shows total rent as a percent of total disposable income: There are two ways to look at this. The rental market obviously goes though a…
“This is the Agenda of White Nationalists”: The Squad Condemns Trump’s Racist Remarks
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), conduct a news conference in the Capitol responding to negative comments by President Trump on Monday, July 15, 2019.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call The four progressive women of color targeted in President Donald Trump’s racist Twitter diatribe fought back on Monday afternoon by urging…
Trump Stages Full-Blown, Racist Meltdown at “Made in America” Event
Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump on Monday further escalated his racist attacks against four Democratic congresswomen of color who have been sharply critical of his presidency by telling the freshmen lawmakers that they were free to “leave” the country if they were unhappy with his administration. “If you’re not happy here, then you can leave,”…
The Worst Responses to Trump’s Racist Tweets
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma While President Donald Trump continues to double down on his racist weekend tweetstorm, his fiercest defenders are contorting themselves to try to explain that, actually, those comments weren’t racist. On Sunday, Trump unleashed a string of attacks on four freshman Democratic congresswomen of color—Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar…
Where Are the Decent Republicans?
Over at National Review, David French comments on President Trump’s racist comments this weekend telling progressive congresswomen of color that they should “go back where they came from”: The near-total silence (at least so far) from GOP leaders is deeply dispiriting. Do they not understand the message the leader of their party is sending —…
Raw Data: Kids Below Grade Level, Kids Taking Calculus
I was puttering around last night on some stuff related to education and happened to run across a couple of interesting statistics from an NAEP report a few years ago. First there’s this: The share of students in a grade level below the one typical for their age has increased over the past 50 years.…