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Digging down into voter turnout

By Mike Alberti, Lori Bikson
New data viz allows you to create demographic composites — using race and ethnicity, sex, age, and e...
Elections

Popular vote for President: former Confederate states versus rest of U.S.

By Craig Gurian
Data viz shows results from 1968 to 2008, and reminds us of frequency of disparate outcomes.
Elections Politics

Individual minimum wage versus family poverty threshold

By Mike Alberti
Working at minimum wage earns you less in real terms than in 1968; you're further from supporting yo...
Employment Labor Poverty

Private consultants rake in public pension fund fees

By Mike Alberti
At many public pension funds, the fees paid to outside investment consultants are equal to a sizable...
Pensions State government

Bank profits: not so shabby after all

Data Visualizations | By Craig Gurian, Mike Alberti
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.
Banking

Back on top: new data show wealthy recovering more than others

By Mike Alberti
The top 1 percent of families captured 93 percent of total income growth from 2009 to 2010.
Income inequality Taxes

Eye-opening data vizes on corporate tax revenues, effective rates, share since 1946

By Lori Bikson
Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.
Corporate influence Taxes

Obama seeks to lock in corporate taxes near historic lows

By Lori Bikson
Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.
Corporate influence Taxes

Producing more, earning less

By Mike Alberti
American manufacturing workers are more productive than ever, but earn less than they did in 1970. R...
Economy Labor

When the federal government dared to act

By Margaret Moslander
Viz shows scope, type of projects built in New York under New Deal's Public Works Administration. In...
Infrastructure Role of government

Underemployment state-by-state

By Mike Alberti
Easy ways to visualize not only the large numbers of unemployed workers, but underemployed, "margina...
Employment