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Do native-born Americans have higher household incomes than naturalized citizens? It is a simple question the Census Bureau answered this week. The answer? No. Do native-born Americans have higher household incomes than noncitizens? Yes. In fact, when it comes to ranking household incomes by the nativity of the householder, according to the Census Bureau, households headed by naturalized citizens are at the top and those headed by noncitizens are at the bottom. “Foreign-born householders can be classified into two categories: those who are naturalized U.S. citizens and those who are not U.S. citizens,” says the Census Bureau’s newly released report on income in the United States in 2023. “Households maintained by naturalized citizens ($86,060) had the highest median incomes in 2023, followed by native-born individuals ($81,700),” the report says. “Households maintained by noncitizens had the lowest median household income ($61,440),” it says. The Census Bureau report also indicates that by 2023 the household income of Americans had recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic that struck the nation in 2020. “Median household income was $80,610 in 2023, 4% higher than the 2022 estimate of $77,540,” says the report. “This is the first annual increase in median household income since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic began. The 2023 median household income is not statistically different from the 2019 median household income of $81,210. Household income in 2019 was the highest since 1967, the highest ever recorded in this report.” In fact, the historical data in the Census Bureau’s report shows that the median household income in the U.S. increased significantly in the years leading up to the pandemic. In 2016, the median household income was $73,520 in constant 2023 dollars. By 2019, that had grown by approximately 10.5% to $81,210. In 2016, according to the report, 36.4% of American households had incomes that were $100,000 or greater. By 2019, that percentage had risen to 41.1%. By 2022, it had dropped to 38.9%. But in 2023, it rose again to 40.9%. As this column has noted before, the Census Bureau’s annual income data demonstrates that certain characteristics correlate with higher household incomes—and with lower household incomes. Maintaining a traditional family structure matters. Among married-couple families in the U.S., the median household income was $119,400 in 2023. When the family household was headed by a man without a spouse, the median income was $81,890. When it was headed by a woman without a spouse, the median income was $59,470. Male householders without a family had a median income of $57,200. Female householders without a family had a median income of $42,140. In other words, the median household income of a married-couple family ($119,400) in 2023 was more than twice the median income of nonfamily households headed by a man ($57,200) or woman ($42,140). Earning a diploma also continued to matter in America. “Householders with more education had higher income,” the Census Bureau says. “In 2023, households maintained by someone with at least a bachelor’s degree had the highest median income ($126,800), followed by those with some college ($73,610) and those with a high school diploma ($55,810).” “Householders aged 25 and over with no high school diploma had the lowest median household income ($36,620),” says the report. Thus, the median annual income of a householder who had earned a college degree or higher ($126,800) was more than twice as much as the median income of someone who had only earned a high school degree ($55,810). In fact, the $70,990 difference between the median household income of someone who had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher and someone who had only graduated from high school would go a long way toward paying the $82,866 in charges that Harvard, according to its website, will levy this year for tuition ($56,550), fees ($5,126), housing ($12,922), and food ($8,268). Another obvious factor that affects someone’s income is how much they work. “Total workers (also referred to as ‘all workers’) include both part-time and full-time workers,” says the Census Bureau report. “A full-time, year-round worker is a person who worked at least 35 hours per week (full-time) and at least 50 weeks per year (year-round).” In 2023, the Census Bureau reports, total workers had $50,310 in median earnings. Full-time, year-round workers, by contrast, had $61,440 in median earnings. This Census Bureau’s new income report reinforces the lessons this column has noted before about the the agency’s income data. This nation’s prosperity is rooted in traditional families and hard work. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Roots of American Prosperity appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A small city in western Ohio has become a focal point of discussions about the mass immigration policies of the Biden-Harris administration. At Tuesday night’s presidential debate on ABC, former President Donald Trump mentioned how the city of Springfield, Ohio, was being overrun by Haitian migrants and that people have reported their dogs, cats, ducks, geese, and all kinds of other animals being eaten by the new arrivals. “They’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” Trump claimed. Trump: "They're eating the dogs. The people that came in–they're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there."— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) September 11, 2024 The line about the dogs was widely ridiculed by as an absurd exaggeration, but there’s no question that Springfield is in turmoil due to the massive surge in Haitian migrants, estimated at 20,000 in a city with a population of about 58,000. The Biden administration has granted “temporary protected status” to hundreds of thousands of Haitians, and there will likely be many more people coming from that troubled Caribbean island nation. Vice President Kamala Harris seems to be enthusiastic about the temporary status program for Haitians, too. Here's Kamala Harris literally admitting she is responsible for importing tens of thousands of Haitians into the United States.They're now taking over small towns and eating people's pets.pic.twitter.com/zOMdmeKaT8— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 9, 2024 That policy is part of this administration’s larger, general policy of just letting people from all over the world flood into the United States—legal or not, beneficial to the U.S. or not. The temporary protected status for Haitians has been renewed to extend into 2026, so many more will likely come to America and to Springfield. The border and immigration catastrophe often gets the most attention in big, blue sanctuary cities like New York. But this issue is hitting countless smaller towns and cities at the border and around the country that never chose to be sanctuary cities, but nevertheless are forced to deal with the Biden-Harris administration’s policies. The burden for inundated smaller cities is often far worse. The arrival of tens of thousands of people can be transformative in a way it wouldn’t be in a city of millions. It’s awfully hard to assimilate a population of new arrivals whose numbers may soon rival the number of native residents. And at the end of the day, why is it that these small towns—or really any American city—must bear the burden of another nation’s failure to create a livable place for their citizens? Haiti has been in a state of crisis since its president was assassinated in 2021, but its problems extend back for centuries. Violent gangs have taken control of large parts of the country and its government teeters on the edge of oblivion. It has consistently rated as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, is quite stable and functional by comparison. This isn’t a new situation for Haiti, once called the “Pearl of the Caribbean.” A violent, lawless founding launched in 1791—more like the bloody and vicious French Revolution than the American Revolution—set the country on a course to becoming a long-term basket case. Haiti famously threw off the shackles of slavery, but it never sustained the conditions to create a truly free, prosperous society. It’s a tragic story. Many on the Left, and certainly many of Haiti’s politicians, blame Haiti’s problems on European colonization and the legacy of slavery. They demand reparations. Yet, it’s been given tens of billions of dollars in aid over the course of half a century and conditions have hardly improved. The problem isn’t just one bad regime; it’s been caused by systemic failure to create good governance. From 2011 to 2021, the U.S. alone gave the country $13 billion. We’ve been shoveling money to the island nation for more than half a century. The Clinton Foundation has been busily making a bigger mess of things there, too. What are we getting in return for this massive public investment? What we are getting is an endless set of bills and now importation of Haiti’s problems.  The “solution” of the Biden-Harris administration is apparently to let them mass migrate to the U.S. For little Springfield, Ohio, the city’s resources have been taxed to the limit, housing prices have skyrocketed, housing availability has crashed, and many of the residents are deeply troubled by the changes they see around them. In the days before the Trump-Harris presidential debate on Tuesday night, videos from the Springfield City Commission meetings emerged showing residents livid about the changes they’ve seen occurring around them. Here’s one Springfield resident saying at a commission meeting that he’s tired of seeing the Haitian migrants “grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with them and eating them.” NEW: Springfield, Ohio man says Haitian illegals are decap*tating ducks from parks & eating them, accuses commission members of getting paid off for allowing it.“They're in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with 'em and eating… pic.twitter.com/uE3wI3CXl3— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 8, 2024 Here is a woman explaining how her town is being “invaded,” and transformed. She says at a commission meeting that the migrants have been “stealing animals from farmers and leaving their severed heads at the site of an old school where children play.” She listed other disturbing behaviors, too. One resident of Springfield: “Stealing animals from farmers and leaving their severed heads at the site of an old school where children play…”This echoes other accounts at the council meeting & local crime watch FB groups. pic.twitter.com/D5uq9vY84n— Megan Basham (@megbasham) September 10, 2024 Here’s a woman saying at a hearing that she has men who don’t speak English “screaming at me, throwing mattresses in my front yard.” She further says that the danger is making it difficult to remain in Springfield. Springfield, Ohio woman says homeless Haitians are trying to camp out on her front yard, says she “wants out of this town.”“I have men that cannot speak English in my front yard, screaming at me, throwing mattresses in my front yard.”“Look at me, I weigh 95 pounds. I couldn't… pic.twitter.com/eShzG8grC1— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 9, 2024 Here’s yet another woman explaining how Haitian migrants are behaving badly in grocery stores and how city services are stressed to the breaking point. COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLEMore from Springfield, OhioThis town went from having a population of 60k to getting 20k Haitians in just a few years.I’ve been watching this city council meeting on and off throughout the day.This woman says the majority of the people going to get… pic.twitter.com/jn1U1dtmbC— Sarah Sansoni (@sarahsansoni) September 8, 2024 Worst of all is the testimony of a woman who said her mother-in-law was killed by a Haitian migrant who was driving recklessly. As she rightly said, this is a far bigger problem than what’s possibly happening to dogs and cats. "Everyone is talking about cats and ducks in this town. But I want to talk about one very special lady. My mother-in-law."Springfield, Ohio resident whose beloved mother-in-law was recently kiIIed by an immigrant from Haiti speaks out.Stop what you're doing and watch this. pic.twitter.com/XWa2JpAtsm— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 11, 2024 Some local authorities are saying that they haven’t had significant reports of animal cruelty, but are we really supposed to discount the testimony from all these people saying otherwise? You won’t be surprised to learn that most corporate media outlets are uninterested in covering this story except to repeat the “no problems here” mantra from local bureaucrats. With scant investigation, they insist that cats, dogs, and ducks aren’t being roasted in the parks; it’s all fake news. The insinuation is that you should assume this is all just rube-ish American bigotry and nothing more. But it’s quite disturbing that most media outlets are dedicated to just reporting what government agencies tell them. Were some online memes and videos about Haitians devouring cats inaccurate? It looks like it. But it’s hard to discount what locals in Springfield are saying about their problems and what the numbers show. The strain on local resources is real, and there is no question that the recent Haitian arrivals bring some drastically different cultural assumptions with them. The issue has obviously become large enough that it’s caused significant turmoil in Springfield. Why are distressed locals simply being dismissed? Whatever one can say about Trump’s comment about people eating dogs, at least it’s finally provoking a response. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, announced Wednesday that he is sending in state troopers and financial aid to help beleaguered Springfield. That’s a better response than dismissal. But this issue can only be resolved by a federal government willing to put the interests of our citizens and communities first instead of just joining with the media and telling residents they are imagining their problems and should just shut up about it. The post Problems With Massive Haitian Influx to Ohio City Are Real. Media Shamefully Dismiss Them. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The importation of 20,000 Haitian immigrants into the small rural area of Springfield, Ohio, has caused serious problems for the residents of the tight-knit community. It's a problem across the country; small towns that are already dealing with strained resources, decades of globalization outsourcing, inflation, and the opioid crisis are forced to absorb third-world invasions, subsidized with their own tax dollars. However serious this is for the residents experiencing the benefits of enforced diversity, the internet has responded with humorous takes on the unconfirmed reports from residents about missing pets and local wildlife. The power of memes shows that absurdist humor can tell a truth the media seeks to silence. Here are some of the funniest ones from X. Blaze Media's own Logan Hall makes it clear that in the second Trump administration, voodoo sacrifices will not be tolerated. — (@) Peachy Keenan's tweet made the front of the Drudge Report and was shared by President Trump. — (@) Logan Hall makes an impassioned plea for where we would send the people making America Haiti. — (@) The indomitable Jack Posobiec makes it clear that Trump will not stand for this. — (@) Even Elon Musk couldn't resist jumping into the fray. RIP, Snowball I. — (@) Return managing editor Peter Gietl showed a cat with a simple message for November. — (@) Blaze editor in chief Matthew Peterson advocated building an American ark to save the animals. — (@) The Babylon Bee has been noticing some interesting culinary developments in the area. — (@)

Following the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift took to Instagram and endorsed Harris and Walz. No surprises there. While the pop star encouraged people to do their research and vote for the candidate they feel best represents their values, she punctuated the post with a jab at JD Vance by signing it “Taylor Swift, childless cat lady.” Indiana Fever point guard and most celebrated female basketball player Caitlin Clark liked Swift’s post, leading people to speculate about Clark’s political leanings – many assuming that she also must support Harris. When asked if that was the case, Clark deflected the question and said that she would only use her platform to encourage people to vote. “I think for myself, this is the second time I can vote in an election at age 22. I could vote when I was 18, so I think, do that. That's the biggest thing I can do with the platform that I have, and that's the same thing Taylor did. I think continuing to educate yourself with the candidates that we have, the policies that they're supporting, I think that's the biggest thing you can do, and that's what I would recommend to every single person that has that opportunity in our country." Jason Whitlock, longtime Caitlin Clark fan and critic, discusses how Clark’s political posture will impact the way both he and fans see her. - YouTube www.youtube.com According to Steve Kim, “we have to stop expecting our celebrities who we choose to follow to have the same beliefs as us, and conversely, we, the general public … have to stop being sheep and being led around the nose by any celebrity endorsement.” “I don't know what [Clark’s] political leaning is. I don't think it really should matter, honestly,” he tells Jason, adding that he hopes “it does not change [Jason’s] opinion of her.” To hear Jason’s thoughts on Caitlin Clark following her decision to like Swift’s post, watch the clip above. Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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