By The Numbers

The Statistical Abstract of the United States for 2006 is out. It's chock full of interesting stuff, such as this chart that shows that the American's median income, in constant dollars, fell between 2000 and 2003:

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In other words, most Americans were economically worse off after the first two full years of Bush.

I've only started to plough through the wealth of numbers. I will comment on other statistics in the new year.

Hat tip to beSpacific.