The IRS did an analysis of the 2009 tax year, and some interesting and not surprising things happened!
“Life at a publication such as Harper’s is far from easy. The pay is bad, chances for advancement are almost nonexistent (during my tenure at the magazine, only two people on the editorial staff received a promotion due to merit rather than attrition; I was one them), and…
“Washington State Penitentiary will be one the state’s eight major prisons locked down today as…
That’s unsurprising! The number of small business owners who cite “poor sales” as their “number one problem” has tripled in the last four years. Poor sales now beats “taxes” on the complaint list. When will Obama and those fatcats in Washington stop making people not buy things, etc.?
The official “underemployment” rate stands at 16.5%: “That’s roughly double the figure in December 2007, when the recession began.” Some day, someone will make a connection between the country’s economic health and its…
“Every day, 400 unemployed New York City residents exhaust their unemployment benefits.”
And soon she’ll be homeless. The end.
“Federal Reserve officials are increasingly confident the U.S. economic recovery is sustainable, but they do not see employment picking up soon, according to minutes from their November meeting released on Tuesday.”
In the 1960s, the African-American unemployment rate in New York City was nearly identical to the white people unemployment rate. But by 1990, black people were well more than twice as likely to be unemployed as white people. Ever…
