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Top staffers for new members of Congress: uncovering their previous jobs with lobbying entities By Samantha Cook \| Open government More than three dozen staffers for new members of Congress had at some previous point been associated with organizations that engaged in lobbying or were lobbying clients. Some came to the Hill directly from the lobbying entity. More	Newly out-of-office Members of Congress: where have their top staffers gone? By Samantha Cook \| Open government Are they working for employers that are lobbying firms or lobbying clients? More
Dozens of new state limits on abortions added in 2012 By Mike Alberti \| Reproductive health services More and more women are more and more effectively denied access. Tools allow user to make custom assessment of impact in each state. More	The incredible shrinking federal workforce By Mike Alberti \| Role of government 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. More
Workers’ out-of-pocket health insurance costs to go through the roof? By Mike Alberti \| Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance If employers move away from providing a specific basket of health insurance benefits (the defined benefits model) to providing employees with the equivalent of a voucher and then forcing them to buy their own health insurance (the defined contribution model), it seems likely that each employees’ out-of-pocket costs will rise substantially over time. More	Brother, can you spare $829 billion? By Meade Klingensmith \| Banking, Economy America’s largest corporations are holding lots of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments. This viz breaks it down for 2012, 2006, and 2000. More
Digging down into voter turnout By Mike Alberti, By Lori Bikson \| Elections New data viz allows you to create demographic composites — using race and ethnicity, sex, age, and educational attainment — to get detailed portraits of national voter turnout and registration since 2006. More	Popular vote for President: former Confederate states versus rest of U.S. By Craig Gurian \| Elections, Politics A review of Presidential voting patterns reminds us of regional differences between the states of the former Confederacy and the rest of the country that have had material impact. We looked at the popular vote in the last 11 Presidential elections (starting with 1968). We created three categories: the U.S. as a whole, the former Confederate states as a whole, and the balance of the U.S. taken as a whole (that is, all U.S. states other than the former Confederate states). More

Top staffers for new members of Congress: uncovering their previous jobs with lobbying entities By Samantha Cook \| Open government More than three dozen staffers for new members of Congress had at some previous point been associated with organizations that engaged in lobbying or were lobbying clients. Some came to the Hill directly from the lobbying entity. More	Newly out-of-office Members of Congress: where have their top staffers gone? By Samantha Cook \| Open government Are they working for employers that are lobbying firms or lobbying clients? More
Dozens of new state limits on abortions added in 2012 By Mike Alberti \| Reproductive health services More and more women are more and more effectively denied access. Tools allow user to make custom assessment of impact in each state. More	The incredible shrinking federal workforce By Mike Alberti \| Role of government 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. More
Workers’ out-of-pocket health insurance costs to go through the roof? By Mike Alberti \| Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance If employers move away from providing a specific basket of health insurance benefits (the defined benefits model) to providing employees with the equivalent of a voucher and then forcing them to buy their own health insurance (the defined contribution model), it seems likely that each employees’ out-of-pocket costs will rise substantially over time. More	Brother, can you spare $829 billion? By Meade Klingensmith \| Banking, Economy America’s largest corporations are holding lots of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments. This viz breaks it down for 2012, 2006, and 2000. More
Digging down into voter turnout By Mike Alberti, By Lori Bikson \| Elections New data viz allows you to create demographic composites — using race and ethnicity, sex, age, and educational attainment — to get detailed portraits of national voter turnout and registration since 2006. More	Popular vote for President: former Confederate states versus rest of U.S. By Craig Gurian \| Elections, Politics A review of Presidential voting patterns reminds us of regional differences between the states of the former Confederacy and the rest of the country that have had material impact. We looked at the popular vote in the last 11 Presidential elections (starting with 1968). We created three categories: the U.S. as a whole, the former Confederate states as a whole, and the balance of the U.S. taken as a whole (that is, all U.S. states other than the former Confederate states). More

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