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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...

The incredible shrinking federal workforce

When taking into account the growing size of the population, most parts of the federal civilian work...

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.

Digging down into voter turnout

New data viz allows you to create demographic composites — using race and ethnicity, sex, age, and e...

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

Data viz shows results from 1968 to 2008, and reminds us of frequency of disparate outcomes.

Individual minimum wage versus family poverty threshold

Working at minimum wage earns you less in real terms than in 1968; you're further from supporting yo...

Private consultants rake in public pension fund fees

At many public pension funds, the fees paid to outside investment consultants are equal to a sizable...

Bank profits: not so shabby after all

There has been a lot of reporting in recent weeks about how big banks have fallen on hard times. One...