Economy

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Poverty

wikipedia:Poverty in the United States offers a good overview of how we measure poverty in the U.S. The Census Bureau tracks two measures: the official measure (developed in the early 1960s when Lyndon B. Johnson declared War on Poverty) and the Supplemental Poverty Measure.

Sites with clean interfaces that track various stats:

Rural flight

Middle-Class Jobs

Truck Driving

Trade

N. Gregory Mankiw on the surprising truths about trade deficits.

Innovation

Immigrants contribute an outsized portion of innovation in the U.S.[1]

  • Since 1901, 33% of U.S. Nobel Laureates have been immigrants
  • In 2014, 40% of doctoral degrees awarded to non-citizens
  • More than a quarter of U.S. entrepreneurs were born overseas. The number has been rising steadily since 1995.
  • William Kerr estimates that immigrants accounted for 29% of patents in 2017, up from 9% in 1975
  • Native-born residents display more creativity where many immigrants work in innovation

See Also

References

  1. John A. Griffin. "The Innovation Engine." Harvard Magazine. January-February 2019.