With the young age of the population at that time (the US was still an emerging market, ) and additional culling of the population by World War II, not many people tapped into the social security system.
Puerto Ricans have been migrating to the United States since the 1800s, but it wasn't until World War II that this population movement peaked.
Kansas City is one of only 15 cities with a population of at least 200, 000 in 1950 that saw substantial population losses since World War II but have rebounded in recent years, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by Jordan Rappaport, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
During World War II half of the population was subject to the tax.
FORBES: The Unhappy, Big-Government Feeding 100th Birthday Of America's Income Tax
The U.S. could easily reduce the tax-filing population to pre-World War II levels by dropping two-thirds of taxpayers from the drudgery of filing annual returns.
The written word, however, only emerged about 5, 000 years ago, and until World War II over half the world's population couldn't read or write.
The IMF retorts that it might take 20 years for Europe to pay off the government debt built up during the 2008 financial crisis, global recession, and recovery, recalling that it took that long to pay off the debts Europe ran up during World War II without unduly creating hardships on the population.
FORBES: Feeling That European Springtime Swoon Coming On Again
Before World War II, only one-third of the population earned enough to be subject to the income tax.
Edinburgh Zoo said the wild population was in its healthiest state since before World War II, but remained at serious threat of extinction.
In 1950, at the beginning of the post-World War II suburban boom, the city of Raleigh had a population of 66, 000, living in a land area of only 11 square miles.
There is only one instance since World War II of the U.S economy increasing the employment-population ratio by five percentage points in a decade: the recovery that followed Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1983.
It wasn't until World War II that the federal income tax affected a large percentage of the population.
Pent up demand is high because the average age of the vehicle population in the U.S. is now 10 years, older than it has been since World War II.
As it happens, progress in improving health for the total population as measured by expected length of life at birth proceeded at not far from the same rate before World War II and after World War II.
应用推荐