In the post on flu vaccination rates and Trump’s 2024 vote, I was asked on reddit what the relationship was between gas prices and Trump’s approval rating. I told them that this data was not available on the county level but it was available on the state level. AAA keeps track of average gas prices […]

The Census Bureau has come out with its annual Small Income and Poverty Estimates for each county and school District in the US for 2018.  The above graph shows the 20 year trend in estimates of the percentage of students in poverty for the US, Pennsylvania, Greater Johnstown (GJSD), Ferndale, Richland, and Westmont school districts.  […]

Much has been written about how Trump’s popularity inched up from a low of 37% (according to the Real Clear Politics (RCP) poll average) in December 2017 to 43% in June of 2018.  It has stubbornly remained around 43% ever since as can be seen in the graph above.  His disapproval ratings have fluctuated between […]

In the first post for the eighth year of the blog I was going to reflect on the Ken Burns film about Vietnam.  My first impression was how little things have changed since then with all of the protests.  The second thing that jumped out at me was President Johnson’s defense secretary’s obsession with collecting […]

Last Thursday I attended the Startup Alleghenies launch event to network with those interested in learning how to create one’s own company.  The presentations were interesting.  I went to offer my statistical services to anyone who had such a need.   Looking at the census bureau’s website I came across this article  Startup Firms Created […]

On Saturday, August 12, the there is a profile of me in the local Johnstown, PA newspaper (the Tribune Democrat) on my campaign for city council. I was hoping to push for a living wage ordinance for the city but the State of Pennsylvania, along with 24 other states, has a law preventing the city […]

2016 Election Map for PA Democratic Primary The headlines from this year’s Pennsylvania Primary were that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have all but clinched the nomination of their respective parties for President with their wins on April 26.  Clinton won Pennsylvania with 55% of the vote while Trump won with 57% carrying all 67 […]

  The Keystone Research Center has released a report detailing how the income share for Pennsylvania’s middle class has shrunk since 1978 in each county. The full text of their press release is below. New Census data on the uninsured for Pennsylvania and it’s counties for 2013 will be out tomorrow to give us a […]

Rotated Factor Matrixa Factor 1  (52% of Variance) 2 (21% of Variance) Infant Mortality 2007 Deaths/1000 .915 .157 Life Expectancy -.824 -.473 % Low Birthweight Babies .700 .341 Groups per million .612 % change in bankruptcy -.441 Percent Uninsured in Demographic Group for All Income Levels .979 Percent under age 65 in 200% of Poverty […]

Lloyd Stires has a great series of posts on the decline of mortality in Massachusetts compared to similar surrounding counties.  They are linked in related posts below.   I’ve also received a nice response to my post on medical bankruptcies.  Here is a follow up. I have received comments from Thomas M Miovas of appliedphilosophyonline.com that […]