{"id":2260,"date":"2006-09-06T04:22:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T09:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/hows-your-income\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T12:08:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T17:08:36","slug":"hows-your-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/hows-your-income\/","title":{"rendered":"how&#8217;s your income?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the detroit free press had a nice labor day piece on median income in michigan and the united states,  which included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/assets\/static\/pdf\/2006\/08\/censusincome0830.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">this<\/a> [pdf] graphic of state-by-state data.  since i&#8217;m not sure how long that will remain,  i present a smaller version here:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/dfp_2006medianincome.png\" alt=\"dfp_2006medianincome.png\" width=\"547\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and, for your convenient reference, the 2000 presidential election results:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/2000_president_map.png\" alt=\"2000_president_map.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>great disucssion over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2006_09\/009444.php\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> on the map.  ladies and gentlemen, let the partisan fur fly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> 2006.09.08:  Based on a tip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/archives\/009439.html\">jane galt<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/creativedestruction.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/08\/median-income-bad-data-alert\/\">creative destruction<\/a>, this map needs some help.<\/p>\n<p>one thing that did concern me was the strange threshholds for the colors (that odd -5 to -5.9% gap), but that wasn&#8217;t really the point.  the point was something more like the big economic picture across the country under this &#8220;republican&#8221; administration.  anyway, since i now know i&#8217;m hosting bad data, it&#8217;s on me to fix the data, and while tables are great for economists and statisticians, i&#8217;ve got two maps on this page already.  so here&#8217;s your new map (pardon the quick-and-dirtyness of it all):<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/rojisan_medianincome_1999-2005.png\" alt=\"rojisan_medianincome_1999-2005.png\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> 2008.08.04:  Salon wanted a 2000 presidential election map, and they picked the one used in this post (despite it being a real hack job).  welcome Salon readers.  enjoy your visit.  feel free to look around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the detroit free press had a nice labor day piece on median income in michigan and the united states, which included this [pdf] graphic of state-by-state data. since i&#8217;m not sure how long that will remain, i present a smaller version here: and, for your convenient reference, the 2000 presidential election results: great disucssion over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}