With the 2024 election now appearing in our rear view window, it is time to look at what factors predicted Trump’s vote in Pennsylvania. County Health Rankings came out with their most recent (and possibly last) rankings for every county in the U.S. I am taking a look at which factors predict Trump’s % of […]

Jess Simms is a writer with Scribble House in Pittsburgh. I met her through the Festival of Books in the Alleghenies. She has written an article about the reality of housing affordability in Pittsburgh. A recent report issued by Chapman University’s Center for Demographics and Policy ranked Pittsburgh as the most affordable housing market in […]

On Christmas Eve, I posted on the new Census Bureau poverty estimates for every county in the U.S. In the graph above, I correlated median household income with COVID Case Mortality for the 10 county region. It shows that median income predicts COVID case mortality accounting for 62.9% of the variability. County median income but […]

Map of the Greater Johnstown School District (in Blue) with 42.3% Poverty Age 5-17 The new SAIPE (Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates)  are out for the year 2017.  It covers all states, counties, and school districts (for children age 5-17) in the US.  For the US the rate for children 5-17 was an estimated […]