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Abandonment of poor: much worse than you thought

The maximum value of public assistance benefits has fallen dramatically in every state between 1970 ...

“How could we resist?” The revolving door for ex-members of Congress

Part 3 of our data-gathering collaboration with the Center for Responsive Politics.

Top staffers for new members of Congress: uncovering their previous jobs with lobbying entities

More than three dozen staffers for new members of Congress had at some previous point been associate...

Newly out-of-office Members of Congress: where have their top staffers gone?

Are they working for employers that are lobbying firms or lobbying clients?

Dozens of new state limits on abortions added in 2012

More and more women are more and more effectively denied access. Tools allow user to make custom ass...

Workers’ out-of-pocket health insurance costs to go through the roof?

If employers move to a “defined contribution” model, most likely “yes.”

Brother, can you spare $829 billion?

America’s largest corporations are holding lots of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investment...

Spectacular new ways to slice and dice unemployment data since 2007

Create over 250 demographic composites, combining race and ethnicity, gender, age, and education.