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 Congress designated September 17 as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day 0n 29 February 1952. This day commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution on 17 September 1787 and recognizes all American citizens as in the famous  introductory phrase “We the People.” Central to the awakened document was the gathering of information so that facts would be available for governance. Article I, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution stipulates that a count of the U.S. population be done every ten years. Where are the people? What are they doing and what is the economy? How many seats does each State gain in the U.S. House of Representatives?

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The U.S. population in 1790 was 3,929,214. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO)* projects that the U.S. population will increase from 350 million people in 2025 to 367 million people in 2055. It will be smaller and grow more slowly over the next 30 years, on average, than the agency previously projected it would. Sadly in the “Alice in Wonderland world of the Trump Administration” words mean what the administration wants them to mean, not what they really mean. Look at recent firings, conspicuously Erika McEntarfer, the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the Bureau published weak employment numbers that inarguably contradicted Trump’s ongoing claims of prosperity and showed the follies of his ongoing trade war.** Continue reading →