According to the Census Bureau ...

GOTV believes that a meaningful neologism for democracy is the treasure of information it provides. The Census Bureau, upon whose data today's post relies, is only one example of what we'd lose if autocracy gains a solid foothold. AKA would you want to live in Orban's Hungary?

GOTV assumes that's a big h--l no. So the rest of this post will, with the help of the Census Bureau, explain why progressives must turn out in droves on November 8.

• Real median household income was $70,784 in 2021. Keep in mind, that's median - not necessarily an accurate representation of typical incomes.

• Median incomes were highest in the West ($79,430) and the Northeast ($77,472), followed by the Midwest ($71,129) and the South ($63,368) in 2021. Again, note that where you live can effect how you live.

• The Gini index is a statistical measure of income inequality ranging from 0.0 to 1.0. It measures the amount that any two incomes differ, on average, relative to an assumed arithmetical mean income. It tells us how far apart incomes are from one another. 0.0 represents perfect equality, whereas 1.0 indicates total inequality. Based on the Gini index, income inequality increased by 1.2 percent between 2020 and 2021 (from 0.488 to 0.494). This is the first time this index has shown an annual increase since 2011. And another sobering point - in the United States, there is usually between 40% and 45% income inequality.

• When considered according to race, household incomes differ. Asian households had the highest median income ($101,418) in 2021, followed by non-Hispanic White ($77,999), Hispanic ($57,981), and Black (with the lowest: $48,297).

• Between 2020 and 2021, there was an increase of about 11.1 million full-time,year-round workers (from approximately 106.3 million to 117.4 million), suggesting a shift from working part-time or part-year in 2020 to full-time, year-round work in 2021 / post-pandemic.

• The real earnings of all workers (including part-time and full-time workers) increased 4.6% (from $43,461 to $45,470) between 2020 and 2021,

• Here's a real kick in the gut to women's rights. For all full-time, year-round workers, median earnings among men ($61,180) and women ($51,226) differ significantly and consistently.

• The official poverty rate in 2021 was 11.6%, with 37.9 million people in poverty.

• The official poverty measure includes only pretax money income. Something called the SPM extends the official poverty measure by taking into account many of the government programs designed to assist low-income families and individuals. Such programs include things like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as well as stimulus payments and expansions to refundable tax credits. Two points here: SPM does not replace the official poverty measure, and is not used to determine eligibility for government programs. Nonetheless, SPM is an accurate representation of poverty. The new Supplemental Poverty Measure produces a somewhat higher overall estimate of the number of poor and substantially alters the composition of the poverty population—much less child poverty, much more aged poverty, and more poor adults.

• For the first time since 2011, income inequality in the United States increased.