Data visualizations

Amounts paid to outside investment consultants by big public pension funds as much as 36 percent of what these funds pay for their employees' salaries.

Visualizing the added toll, including discouraged workers and other marginally attached workers.

Data visualizations show median, highest, and individual director pay; reveal change over time; rank companies.

The maximum value of public assistance benefits has fallen dramatically in every state between 1970 and 2011 for families of three.

New tools allow easy access to and filtering of 12 years of data. How long did George W. Bush take to nominate? President Obama? For the Senate to act?

When adjusted for inflation and population, per capita funding in 2011 down 33 percent from 1983.

What is done at flagship public universities and at top-rated private schools?

Part 3 of our data-gathering collaboration with the Center for Responsive Politics.

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.

Are they working for employers that are lobbying firms or lobbying clients?

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.