Data visualizations

Average hourly manufacturing production wages have languished in real terms for almost 40 years as income share at top has skyrocketed.

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.

Tools allow user to make custom assessment of impact in each state.

Remapping Debate's new tools allow for a detailed view of the interests served by ex-lobbyists employed as key staffers in this or the last Congress (searchable by staffer or "client").

Data from multiple years of test administrations now added to comparisons of subject, grade level, economic status, race or ethnicity, and gender.