9/8/04 Census reveals new measure that proves poverty's decreased under W

[papau]

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/miscellaneous/002512.html

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Secretary Evans to Announce New Census Indicator
to Better Track U.S. Economic Trends


Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans will announce a new economic indicator on Wednesday, September 8, 2004. The new economic indicator will be released by the U.S. Census Bureau and will be used as an additional tool to better understand the trends of the services sector of the U.S. economy. It is the first new economic indicator to be introduced by the Census Bureau in 40 years.

WHEN: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
9:30 a.m.

WHERE: U.S. Department of Commerce
Secretary’s Conference Room
14th St. and Constitution Avenue
Media should enter the 14th Street Entrance

WHAT: New Census Bureau Economic Indicator

WHO: Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans
Under Secretary Kathleen Cooper
Census Associate Director for Economic Programs
Frederick T. Knickerbocker

[LittleApple81]

1. At least they are bothering to put their statistical lies on paper. n/t

[swag]

2. Daily Mislead is on it

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BUSH TO ALTER ECONOMIC STATS AGAIN

Last week, the Census Bureau released statistics showing that for the first time in years, poverty had increased for three straight years, while the number of Americans without health care increased to a record level.<1> But instead of changing its economic and health care policies, the Bush administration today is announcing plans to change the way the statistics are compiled. The move is just the latest in a series of actions by the White House to doctor or eliminate longstanding and nonpartisan economic data collection methods.

In a Bush administration press release yesterday, the Census Bureau said next week it "will announce a new economic indicator" as "an additional tool to better understand" the economy. The change in statistics is being directed by Bush political appointees and comes just 60 days from the election. It will be the first modification of Census data in 40 years.<2>

This is not the first time the White House has tried to doctor or manipulate economic data that exposed President Bush's failed policies. In the face of serious job losses last year, the Associated Press reported "the Bush administration has dropped the government's monthly report on mass layoffs, which also had been eliminated when President Bush's father was in office."<3> Similarly, Business Week reported that the White House this year "unilaterally changed the start date of the last recession to benefit Bush's reelection bid." For almost 75 years, the start and end dates of recessions have been set by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a private nonpartisan research group. But the Bush administration decided to toss aside the NBER, and simply declare that the recession started under President Clinton.<4>


Sources:

1. "Census: Poverty up in 2003," The Olympian, 9/01/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1805376&l=52819.
2. Census Bureau press release, 8/31/04.
3. "Monthly report on mass layoffs dropped," Shawnee News-Star, 1/05/03,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1805376&l=52820.
4. "Inventing The 'Clinton Recession'," Business Week Online, 2/23/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1805376&l=52821.

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[Bread and Circus]

5. The Bush Administration is running the Country like Ken Lay...

ran Enron....


Doctor the books, run it into the ground, and take everyone's money.

[olddem43]

3. Probably a measure of the rise in incomes for the top 1%.

More tinkle-down economics.

[seabeyond]

4. they changed process on job report too, after 40 years

in feb. i never did hear how they changed it, but i do know why they changed it. the numbers have been bad. and go figure, since that change the numbers have changed, march on

[Shadoobie]

6. Poverty Intensity

It'll be the number of impoverished people divided by the GDP. They will be able to show how the intensity of poverty will decrease over the next fifteen years even as programs for the poor are slashed.

Greg

[AmandaRuth]

7. I hope air America is all over this (I am sure they will be)

this is why we need air am in every city, on every car dial. It is disgusting the way they spin, lie, distort and plain out change every fact to suit their needs. If this is not challenged now, and challenged hard, and if boosh is reselected, in 4 years the "new economic indicator" will be accepted as indisputable fact and repeated again and again thru out the wing nut echo chamber as an proof positive of why we need to go reThug for 4 more years.

[Nicholas_J]

8. This is how Reagan

Skewed data on cost of living increases. They changed the way the government figured inflation byy excluding the cost of housing and food, knocing out a the two single most important costs for the average person. This loweed the inflation rate in statistics, but not in reality.