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Eye-opening data vizes on corporate tax revenues, effective rates, share since 1946
Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.
When the federal government dared to act
Viz shows scope, type of projects built in New York under New Deal's Public Works Administration. Inflation-adjusted cost exceeded $6 billion.
Aftermath of 2008 economic collapse: biggest global banks still...REALLY big
3 new visualizations on banks deemed "globally systemically important."
NYC gov't staffing, 1980 to present
Peaks and valleys across agencies and across the decades.
Win-Win or Win-Lose?
Average hourly manufacturing production wages have languished in real terms for almost 40 years as income share at top has skyrocketed.
Putting the new GM-UAW contract in historical context
General Motors and the United Auto Workers just agreed on a new four-year contract. What began as an experiment in 2007 — establishing a two-tier wage structure, with new workers having a significantly lower starting wage and maximum wage than their predecessors — has apparently become a more permanent part of the landscape (at least through 2015). Remapping Debate puts the pay levels in context with inflation-adjusted data going back 50 years. For new workers, it is worse than it has been for virtually all of that period.
