Speeches, Documents and Press Conference Transcripts
White House: www.whitehouse.gov
The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa
Barbara: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
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Data
A lot of data on GDP, population, and personal income came from the
Bureau of Economic Analysis National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA)
Tables. They do not have individual links, but can all be accessed from
here: http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/SelectTable.asp?Selected=N
Specific NIPA Tables used:
7.1: Annual and Quarterly real GDP per capita and population
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Data on government spending, receipts, and the national debt, as well as
GDP by fiscal year was obtained from the Office of Management and Budget
Historical Tables: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/hist.html
Specific tables from the Office of Managment and Budget:
GDP by fiscal year (Table 1.2):
Receipts, Outlays and Surpluses or Deficits (Table 1.3):
Spending by Function and Superfunction (Table 3.2):
Spending by Federal Agency (Table 4.1):
Federal Debt (Table 7.1):
Spending on infrastructure (Table 9.3):
Welfare payments (Table 11.3):
Grants to State and Local Governments as a Percent of the Federal Budget (Table 12.1):
Government Employees as a Percent of the Population (Table 17.5):
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Data on Employment Issues and Inflation was obtained from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics www.bls.gov
Specific table from the BLS:
Consumer Price Index (used to calculate inflation):
Average Real Weekly Earnings (Series ID: CEU0500000031):
Civilian (Seasonally Adjusted) Employment-Population Ratio (Series ID: LNS12300000):
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Data on recessions came from the National Bureau of Economic Research
www.nber.org
The specific information on starting and ending points of recession came
from: http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html
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Annual and quarterly data on real GDP per capita and population:
Bureau of Economic Analysis National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA)
Table 7.1: http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/SelectTable.asp?Selected=N
Data on disposable income comes from Bureau of Economic Analysis
National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) Table 2.1
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Some of the tax information for the book was obtained from the Internal
Revenue Service www.irs.gov
Specific sources at the IRS include
Top and Bottom Marginal Personal Income Tax rate:
Taxes as a Percent of Income:
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Some of the information on income and health insurance came from the
Census Bureau (www.census.gov)
Specific tables used include
Health Insurance Coverage Status (Table HI-1)
and Table HIA-1
The percentage of children living in 2 parent families (Table CH-1):
The percentage of people living below the poverty line (Poverty table 2):
Incomes by quintile (Table F1):
Homeownership rates (CPS/HVS Table 14):
Median income:
Breakdown of the US population (before 1980)
and (after 1980)
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In addition to publishing its own information, the Census maintains the
Statistical Abstract of the United States which compiles information
from many other sources in the Federal government. The Statistical
Abstract of the United States, which has been "published since 1878, is
the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social,
political, and economic organization of the United States." The
Statistical Abstract reprints much of the information we obtained from
other sources, making it a fine place to begin any research on the state
of the United States.
Specific information obtained from the Statistical Abstract of the
United States used in the book include:
Age Adjusted death rates and cause of death (specifically, suicide):
Active Duty Military Personnel:
Data on marriages, divorces, and deaths (including infant deaths):
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A lot of the health information used in the book came from the Centers
for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov)
Information on abortions came from
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5609a1.htm#tab2
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Expenditures on health came from this table
(http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/nhegdp05.zip)
from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at the US Department
of health & Human Services (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/)
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The Federal Reserve (www.federalreserve.gov) provided data on the money
supply, net worth, and the value of the dollar. Specific tables used
include:
The Price-adjusted Broad Dollar Index:
Net worth (series FL152090005.A):
Real estate equity: (series FL155035065.Q)
The money supply:
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The Federal Reserve of St. Louis (stlouisfed.org) maintains a very
database called FRED (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/) with all
sorts of data. Specific data taken from FRED include:
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index
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The Congressional Budget Office (www.cbo.gov) has a nice study that
shows the share of total tax liabilities imposed on people at different
income levels here http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/70xx/doc7000/Spreadsheets.xls
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The adjusted close for the S&P 500 was obtained from the Yahoo Finance
page
(http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=%5EGSPC&a=00&b=3&c=1950&d=07&e=22&f=2007&g=d&ignore=.csv)
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Information on the Budget of the NEA (www.arts.gov)
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Some of the data on crime used in the book came from the US Department of Justice .
Homicide data came from this table
(http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/totalstab.htm) at the
Department of Justice's Bureau Justice Statistics
Information on public officials charged and convicted came from
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/pin/docs/AnnReport_05.pdf and
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Energy Consumption and Investment came from Table 1.1
(http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/stb0101.xls) of the Annual Energy
Review (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/) of the Department of Energy
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