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Well, at least it is starting to look that way: June private payrolls rose 2.37 million and there was a big positive revision for May, ADP says. “For the month, hiring was especially strong in the pivotal leisure and hospitality industry, which took the biggest hit as measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus spread meant shutting …
Once again, the U.S. is undergoing a media-driven COVID-19 scare after a “spike” in infections. But as we noted earlier this week, the number of cases depends on the amount of testing. The key gauge to watch is deaths. They’ve been falling since April, and there’s strong reason to believe they’re lower than the official …
Data Point – US Daily Deaths, 7 Day Average (Wu Flu) Read More »
This is what three generations of “Hate America” New Leftists have wrought by taking over our Culture and Education systems. Emphasis mine, reformatted: Kaufmann polled American liberals to gauge their willingness “to jettison the country’s cultural identity.” … He consciously removed conservatives and centrists to focus only on self-described liberals. He presented them with 16 “outlandish” statements …
Data Point – Young Liberals DO want to transform America Read More »
Every once in awhile I come across things like this – fun for me to put up, not so much that have to live there. It is a list of the highest crime cities in America and the political party of their mayor.
Interesting article in the Daily Mail about how various states’ consumer spending is going relative to a baseline set by Google in January/February. While some states are 1-2% less than baseline (Mississippi, Oklahoma, Idaho, Arkansas), New Hampshire is much further down (although heading in the right direction):
Since Steve has just kicked off the latest GraniteGrok Poll, this time on masks, I thought this was rather interesting especially with all of the COVID Karens, #Maskholes, and Snitchers-in-Chief candidates running around the NH political landscape trying to change our “Live Free or Die” to “Herd Me till I Die.”
Reformatted, emphasis mine: As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been extremely concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of counties within all states. As of May 11, for example, 10 states accounted for almost 70% of all U.S. cases and nearly 75% …
Data Point – “1% of Counties Home to Half of COVID-19 Cases, Over Half of Deaths” Read More »
The government should get out of the way of people making their own risk assessments and proceeding accordingly. Equal misery should not be the norm or the lowest common denominator.
70% of the American economy is consumer driven. With Government shutting it down (e.g., Ben Franklin’s saying again!), we can see how fast consumers shut their wallets (even those that still have jobs). The paper relies on data from a nonprofit “fintech” company that helps people save, and the researchers had access to (anonymized) data …
More Americans approve of the job congressional Republicans are doing than of congressional Democrats’ performance — 40% vs. 35%. The rating for Republicans in Congress has risen six percentage points since late October, before the impeachment of President Donald Trump in the U.S. House of Representatives. Over the same period, congressional Democrats’ approval rating has …
Data Point – Approval for Republicans > Democrats in Congress? Read More »
