Comments on: Snow Falsely Claims Racial Income Gap Is ‘Not Widening Anymore’

By: Political Opinion » Snow Falsely Claims Racial Income Gap Is Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½Not Widening AnymoreÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:09:05 +0000

[...] “Not only is the income gap still widening, but African-Americans are faring worse under Bush than they were under President Clinton. […] Under Clinton, the racial income gap was closing because the average median household income of African-Americans grew faster than that of whites. Under Bush, the opposite has been true.”read more | digg story [...]

By: sorry, reality check

sorry, reality check — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:05:45 +0000

the spreadsheet says that the year 2000 is based on census data from that year. The rest seems to be current to 2005 data.

By: JPark

JPark — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:42:34 +0000

Justin, the only problem I have with it is that it is racist…toward whites. Because they note the median household income among blacks and hispanics dropping but it has also dropped among whites.

By: Justin Cox

Justin Cox — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:10:45 +0000

For those who question the depth of the data presented above, check out the graph here of median household income of blacks and hispanics from 1990 to 2004. As the graph shows, racial income inequality improved significantly during the Clinton Administration, but has worsened since Bush took office. You really have to wonder what the hell Snow was thinking.

By: JPark

JPark — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:42:46 +0000

#44 You didn’t figure that one out before Clinton? You really should change your screen-name.

By: JPark

JPark — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:41:53 +0000

#32 Damn, everybody is doing worse under Bush, how hard is that to understand?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:51:44 +0000

The best thing about Clinton’s administration, was the Republican controlled congress. That’s the secret behind his so called success.

By: Intelligent One

Intelligent One — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:31:17 +0000

The one thing Clinton did was show me how to convince my wife that oral sex wasn’t really sex and therefore didn’t constiture aldultery.

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:25:16 +0000

Is anybody questioning the fact that this is based on census results which were published in 2000? Close minded liberals will always refuse to see anything positive about Bush, just as close minded conservatives refuse to admit a single good thing about Clinton’s administration.

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:02:59 +0000

#31 thanks for the update – I missed that.

By: Intelligent One

Intelligent One — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:58:29 +0000

I seriously can’t believe that you all believe this crap. That’s one statistic. And its probably the least relevent statistic in the entire census report. Only knowing that the median changed tells you nothing about the entire distribution. A change in median tells you nothing about where the actual median is, nor does it tell you the upper and lower bounds of the distribution. I find it amazing that liberals are so succeptible to the use of flawed logic and incomplete analyses. It’s no wonder why you keep putting people like Ted Kennedy, Hilary Clinton, and John Kerry in office. All they have to do is put up a graph with irrelevent information and you believe it.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:44:54 +0000

So, does clinton then get credit for the Internet boom?

The 90’s were one of the most prosperous times in the history of the country, and that boom had little to do with clinton or whoever was president at the time.

By: mighty aphrodite

mighty aphrodite — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:25:05 +0000

Wolfdaughter – I mentioned the “2006 abstract” as the basis for the numbers Amanda cited. Did that confuse you? I apologize….

By: Ariana

Ariana — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:44:22 +0000

I believe you are pretty accurate in describing BushCo and the GOP.

By: Gadfly22

Gadfly22 — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:59:52 +0000

I think there was a transposition: it should be Table 674.

By: Indi

Indi — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:53:38 +0000

Post 33: It’s a typo. The original post should say Table 674.

By: Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:23:36 +0000

Snow Falsely Claims Racial Income Gap Is â€˜Not Widening Anymoreâ€™

That happens when the gap reaches infinite wide. No matter how many increases, the gap keeps being infinite.

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:58:03 +0000

Tony Snow is a heinous liar just like Bush, so no wonder Dubya Dunce Decider Despot hired him!

By: spaboo

spaboo — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:05:42 +0000

I clicked on the referenced link to Table 647 and there is no Table 647. Did I just miss something? Where is the original data for this table?

By: S Ford

S Ford — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:36:09 +0000

How does it say that one administration is more or less fair to a specific group by comparing only two groups? How well did Asians, Native Americans, East Indians, Europeans, Middle Easterners and Hispanics perform? Was the administration more or less fair to these groups or is this just a worthless statistic since it did not cover any other race? Perhaps a better overall picture is in order. Then one could say with some certainty whether or not whites were the preferred race according to one statistic in one government chart done by a government no one here trusts.