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.  […]

While I have still been getting responses to my online poll (36 responses so far) I have been writing on my blog and working on my book about Johnstown.   I saw a post on Facebook about the  Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction and Essay Contest The essay writing contest was of interest to me.  According […]

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 […]

Trends in Poverty in the US, CA, MS, NH, and PA Recently I did a post on The Hill Talk on how a writer for the National Review falsely claimed that California had the highest poverty rate in the US.  The data from the Census Bureau for the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) […]

The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center is putting out a press release on the damage that proposed cuts will do to Pennsylvania.  I am the contact person for them in the Johnstown area.  The press release can be read below.   Talking Points: Trump Budget Would Shift Huge SNAP Costs to Pennsylvania and Put Pennsylvanians […]

My latest post on Data Driven Journalism is up an reprinted here.   In my last post, I reported that Washington, DC had an extremely high rate of 30.83 hate groups per million residents in 2016 relative to the other 50 states (the national rate was 2.84 groups per million).  DC also had an exceptionally […]

Trump marked the first 100 days milestone of his campaign with a rally in Harrisburg the State Capitol touting his achievements and his plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.  In my last post I looked at uninsured trends in the state.  This time I will look at uninsured, poverty rates, educational attainment […]

When I posted last week on the correlation between the population hate group numbers and Trump’s % of the vote, one friend on Facebook asked whether the result would hold up if third variables such as poverty and education were added to the model.  The figure below shows the association from last week,  I thought […]

The new Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) from the Census Bureau have been released for 2015.  The data cover all states, counties and school districts.   You can see the interactive map at the link below to show the trends in the US, Pa, and Cambria County.   //www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/data/ For a table view […]

    The Pennsylvania class A high school football championship this year was a matchup of two schools with proud football traditions: Clairton High School near Pittsburgh and Bishop Guilfoyle High School in Altoona, PA.  The two teams met in the title game in 2014 and again this year.  Guilfoyle won the game 17-0 giving […]