Various measures of what has happened in the country since the president’s inauguration.
Biden’s Numbers, October 2022 Update
Issues: poverty
Trump’s Final Numbers
Statistical indicators of President Trump’s four years in office.
Trump’s Numbers, Preelection Update
What the statistics tell us about the president’s time in office.
Trump’s Numbers April 2020 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed during Trump’s time in office.
Trump’s Numbers January 2020 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed during Trump’s first three years.
Trump’s Numbers October 2019 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Trump Wrong About Poverty ‘Record’
The U.S. Census Bureau officially estimates that close to 1 million fewer people were in poverty in 2017 compared with 2016. President Donald Trump called the decline “a record,” but it’s not.
Trump’s Numbers October 2018 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Crime, Jobs and Poverty in Obama Era
Obama’s Final Numbers
The numbers are nearly all in now. What they show about what really happened during the eight years that Barack Obama was president is sometimes different from what politicians claimed.