May 2013
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“[A new study] takes a careful and comprehensive look at some 2,000 decisions...”
– “Corporations Find a Friend in the Supreme Court” / NY Times
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April 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
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“Although African-American family income has increased over time, white families...”
– “Study Shows Racial Wealth Gap Continues to Widen” / USA Today
(IASP study here)
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Interactive infographic: Gun violence in America -... →
“Periscopic have taken FBI crime report data detailing every gun murder in 2010 (and worked with Jerome Cukier, who had also produced this with the same data) - and then combined the numbers with WHO demographic statistics to work out the impact in years lost by looking at the ‘age distribution of US deaths, paired with a likely cause of death at that age’. See what a year of gun...
January 2013
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“Union membership plummeted last year to the lowest level since the 1930s…...”
– “Union Membership Falls Sharply, Led by Decline Among Public Sector Workers” / Washington Post
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“According to the poll, 54 percent of adults say that abortion should be legal...”
– “NBC/WSJ Poll: Majority, For First Time, Want Abortion To Be Legal”
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Fighting Roe v. Wade →
Great infographic of state laws passed to restrict access to abortion (2011-2012)
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“The United States spends more on immigration enforcement than on all other major...”
– “Report: Immigration Leads Federal Law Enforcement Spending” / Washington Post
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Affluent Students Have an Advantage and the Gap Is... →
“Low-income students with above-average scores on eighth grade tests have a college graduation rate of 26 percent — lower than more affluent students with worse test scores. Thirty years ago, there was a 31 percentage point difference in the share of affluent and poor students who earned a college degree. Now the gap is 45 points. The gap has also grown in college entrance rates and spending...
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December 2012
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Gun Homicides and Gun Ownership Listed by Country →
“Where are the world’s guns - and which countries have the highest rates of firearms murders?”
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Twelve Facts About Guns and Mass Shootings in the... →
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“When state lawmakers passed a two-year budget in 2011 that moved $73 million...”
– “Likely Increase in Births Has Some Lawmakers Revisiting Cuts” / NY Times
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The Statisticians at Fox News Use Classic and... →
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How the Tax Burden Has Changed →
The New York Times has a lot of graphs on taxes throughout the years.
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“The annual OECD education statistics show that only about one in five young...”
– “Downward Mobility Haunts US Education” / BBC News
November 2012
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October 2012
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Vote While You Shop: 'Pop-Up' Poll Sites Sweep... →
This is a good idea to increase voter turnout.
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“Taxpayer-funded jobless benefits that shouldn’t have been paid because of...”
– “Unclaimed Jobless Benefits Far Exceed Fraudulent Claims, Study Says” / NPR
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Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted... →
Interesting to see how states have shifted from one party to another throughout the years. There was much more variation from one election to the next in the earlier decades.
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“Women’s real wages have been rising for decades, while the real wages of most...”
– Stephanie Coontz, “The Myth of Male Decline”
September 2012
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American Immigration (Interactive Map) →
Close to 40 million Americans move from one home to another every year. Based on IRS data, this interactive map illustrates these patterns by tracing inward and outward moves for every county in the country.
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What's the Wage Gap in Your State and... →
Top Ten Worst Districts for Women’s Pay
