Map & Data Resources

Workers’ out-of-pocket health insurance costs to go through the roof?
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Oct. 24, 2012 — As explained in the accompanying article, the main reason motivating an employer to move to a defined contribution system is to reduce its own cost curve for employee benefits below...view
Brother, can you spare $829 billion?
Map & Data Resources | Meade Klingensmith | Banking, Economy
Sept. 26, 2012 — So how much pump-priming could America’s largest corporations achieve if they were to dig into their cash and cash equivalents as well as their short-term investments? Remapping...view
Spectacular new ways to slice and dice unemployment data since 2007
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti | Unemployment
June 27, 2012 — When you’ve looked for monthly unemployment data, you have probably noticed that you can pretty readily find those data sliced by race or gender. Sometimes you can find the data...view
Digging down into voter turnout
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti, Lori Bikson | Elections
June 20, 2012 — Based on an analysis of recently-released Census Bureau data, this visualization allows you to combine multiple demographic features — race and ethnicity, sex, age, and educational...view
Popular vote for President: former Confederate states versus rest of U.S.
Map & Data Resources | Craig Gurian | Elections, Politics
May 2, 2012 — 150 years ago, the Confederate states were fighting to preserve slavery. 50 years ago, those former Confederate states were fighting to preserve racial segregation. Over the course of...view
Individual minimum wage versus family poverty threshold
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti | Employment, Labor, Poverty
Apr. 11, 2012 — As observed in recent news coverage, “lawmakers are facing growing pressure to raise the minimum wage, which was last increased at the federal level to $7.25 an hour in July 2009.”...view
Private consultants rake in public pension fund fees
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti | Pensions, State government
Apr. 4, 2012 — The woes of public pension funds have generally been placed squarely at the feet of public employees, who are often accused of having bloated pension packages that are neither...view
Bank profits: not so shabby after all
Map & Data Resources | Craig Gurian, Mike Alberti | Banking
Mar. 7, 2012 — There has been a lot of reporting in recent weeks about how big banks have fallen on hard times. One would be forgiven for getting the impression that these banks are not doing much...view
Back on top: new data show wealthy recovering more than others
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti | Income inequality, Taxes
Mar. 5, 2012 — Average income of the top 1 percent of Americans, along with their share of total income, is recovering more after the Great Recession than is the case for other Americans, according...view
Eye-opening data vizes on corporate tax revenues, effective rates, share since 1946
Map & Data Resources | Lori Bikson | Corporate influence, Taxes
Feb. 22, 2012 — The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to close some corporate tax loopholes, but to lower rates at the same time — to a top rate of 28 percent from the current 35 percent,...view

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