By Frances Dumenci, University Public Affairs Appearing before a United States Senate subcommittee for the second time in as many months, Steven Woolf, M.D., director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health and professor of family medicine and population health in the VCU School of Medicine, is making a habit of lending…
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A report by the GAO on the effects of the recession on the income of older adults (age 55 and over) finds that while the unemployment rate of older adults is lower than for younger workers, the rate doubled during the recession.
The unemployment rate was 9.1% in September 2011, unchanged from July to September.
In a recent report using 2007-2009 American Community survey data, researchers from Georgetown University have replicated a previous Census study on lifetime earnings. They found that individuals with a Bachelor’s degree 84% more over a lifetime than those with only a high school diploma, up from 75% in 1999.
A recent report from the Pew Research Center describes the growing wealth gap between households of different racial/ethnic background: the median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households.
The unemployment rate was 9.2% in June 2011, relatively unchanged from 9.1% in May.
Key findings from the 2010 Current Population Survey show that, although median income did not change significantly between 2008 and 2009, the poverty rate did rise significantly from 13.2% to 14.3%.