Data visualizations

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.
What expanding federal workforce?
When taking into account the growing size of the population, most parts of the federal civilian workforce are effectively much smaller than they were in 1978.
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.
Growing set of state abortion restrictions visualized
Tools allow user to make custom assessment of impact in each state.
State aid to education down, down, down
Our FY 11-12 data gathering is now complete, and we find 40 states effectively cutting aid over last four years, 19 of them by at least 10 percent. South Carolina and California cut aid by the highest percentages.
Enhanced data viz on student performance
Data from multiple years of test administrations now added to comparisons of subject, grade level, economic status, race or ethnicity, and gender.
New tools permit custom analysis of educational attainment results
Most recent U.S. Dept. of Education data made "slice-able" by grade, subject, and demographic variables.