Today’s U.S. Census Bureau figures provide further evidence that America’s working families have experienced a “lost decade” of falling incomes from 2000 to 2012.

• From 2000 to 2012, median income for non-elderly households fell $7,490, or 11.6%.
• Median income for African American households fell $5,838, or 14.8%.
• Median income for Hispanic households fell $5,219, or 11.8%.
• From 1973 to 2012, median earnings for men working full-time fell from $51,668 to $49,398.

The Census was good enough for Thomas Jefferson. But apparently not so for today’s House Republicans. Yesterday, they passed, by 232 to 190, a measure to cut the American Community Survey, conducted annually as part of the U.S. Census.

This is a cross-post from the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO blog.

With last night’s victory for the people of Wisconsin under way, GOP legislators are getting nervous. They are so scared that they are proposing changes to legislative maps, which heavily favor Republicans over the people of Wisconsin.