The thirteen minute number is further broken down by race, with African Americans clocking in 16 minutes a day, Caucasians 13, Latinos 10 and Asians 9.
Since 2006, the number of air controllers has held steady at 27, 000 despite a thirteen percent decline in the number of flights. (The airlines have learned the art of cutting back flights and will continue to do so).
The positive stuff that can be cherry-picked off the report, the fact that housing prices increased on a monthly basis for the first time in eight months and thirteen of the twenty cities showed monthly increases can be attributed to a slowdown in the number of foreclosures sold for the month.