The 2020 Census: Small Republican Gains in a Nation Hunkered Down
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The COVID-19-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and nearly one-third of a billion for the whole nation: 331,449,281, and also with surprises in the short run and for what French historians call the longue duree.
The short-term news revolves around the function for which the framers of the Constitution mandated the world’s first regularly scheduled census: the reapportionment of seats of the House of Representatives among the states. That’s done according to a 1941 statutory formula that the Census Bureau conveniently applies.
The results were underwhelming. Only seven seats out of 435 were switched from one state to the other. Texas gained two. Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon gained one each. Losing one each were California (for the first time in history), Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 11: The Roosevelt Recession, Continued SHARE Massive jolts of New Deal spending had stopped the economic slide, [but the economy crashed again when] over two years, FDR slashed government spending 17 percent. (From a 2011 NPR presentation.)
In the last installment of this series, I discussed the hypothesis that the 1937 collapse resulted from an ill-conceived tightening of monetary policy to which both the Fed and the Treasury contributed.
While authorities differ in the degree of responsibility they assign to each, there s widespread agreement that, between them, instead of merely extinguishing a boom, as they intended to do, both Fed and Treasury officials helped bring about a crash that undid much of the post-1933 recovery.