Paper
1-892123-14-2
1000 pp.
$35.00
6 x 9
charts and graphs
Politics/Economics

Raymond J. Keating and Thomas N. Edmonds
U.S. By the Numbers 2000
Figuring What's Left, Right and Wrong with America State by State
Foreword by Jack Kemp

Applying their economic expertise and political savvy to the facts, figures, and rankings—economist Keating and political consultant Edmonds provide hard-hitting analysis and prescriptions for every state and the nation as we enter a new century.

U.S. by the Numbers looks at literally hundreds of indicators—taxes, budgets, education, crime, the economy and business, demographic trends, politics and government, the environment, health care, and other societal and lifestyle areas—to reveal how each state and the country as a whole measure up to the rest of the world.

Through quick, easy-to-digest statistical charts and graphs—they examine which states are involved most effectively in the “Entrepreneurial Revolution,” where private enterprise and ingenuity take on the challenges of providing public services. They also look at which states perform well in terms of crime, taxes and education which states carry the heaviest government spending and debt burdens where economic growth and job creation is robust and where they lag, which states spend the most on the environment, which have the highest abortion rate, and much, much more.

Raymond J. Keating and Thomas N. Edmonds are the authors of D.C. by the Numbers: A State of Failure and Keating’s second book, New York by the Numbers: State and City in Perpetual Crisis. Mr. Keating, who lives in New York, is a weekly columnist with Newsday and serves as chief economist for the Washington, D.C.-based Small Business Survival Committee. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, and The Washington Post. Mr. Edmonds is a nationally recognized Washington, D.C. political consultant and past president of the 1,000 member, bipartisan, American Association of Political Consultants.

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