Data visualizations

Senate action on 20 pending nominations combined with 15 new nominations by Obama result in very different snapshot from six months ago. Will new picture last? Tools allow look at all judicial vacancies since 2001.

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.

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?

More and more women are more and more effectively denied access. Tools allow user to make custom assessment of impact in each state.