Data visualizations

America’s largest corporations are holding lots of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments. This viz breaks it down for 2012, 2006, and 2000.

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

Working at minimum wage earns you less in real terms than in 1968; you're further from supporting your family, too.

At many public pension funds, the fees paid to outside investment consultants are equal to a sizable part of the money spent on employees' salaries. (The thumbnail, for example, represents CALPERS for 2011.)

There has been a lot of reporting in recent weeks about how big banks have fallen on hard times. One would be forgiven for getting the impression that these banks are not doing much better than barely scraping by. But the data tell another story. In 2011, for example, the profits of Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo each exceeded the profits of Google. The average profit from 2005 to 2011 for Apple was less than that for Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo.

The top 1 percent of families captured 93 percent of total income growth from 2009 to 2010.

Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.

Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.

American manufacturing workers are more productive than ever, but earn less than they did in 1970. Remapping Debate’s attempt to visualize the growing gap more clearly than did a recent Wall Street Journal article.

Viz shows scope, type of projects built in New York under New Deal's Public Works Administration. Inflation-adjusted cost exceeded $6 billion.