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Oil and gas companies still enjoying 1920 royalty rates
When it comes to onshore production on federal land, that is.
Private consultants still raking in public pension fund fees
Amounts paid to outside investment consultants by big public pension funds as much as 36 percent of what these funds pay for their employees' salaries.
Data viz illuminates state-by-state underemployment, 2003 to 2012
Visualizing the added toll, including discouraged workers and other marginally attached workers.
Abandonment of poor: much worse than you thought
The maximum value of public assistance benefits has fallen dramatically in every state between 1970 and 2011 for families of three.
Judicial vacancies: show us the numbers
New tools allow easy access to and filtering of 12 years of data. How long did George W. Bush take to nominate? President Obama? For the Senate to act?
“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 associated with organizations that engaged in lobbying or were lobbying clients. Some came to the Hill directly from the lobbying entity.