Data visualizations

Easy ways to visualize not only the large numbers of unemployed workers, but underemployed, "marginally attached," and "discouraged" workers as well.

Peaks and valleys across agencies and across the decades.

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

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.

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.

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.