short readApr 11, 2014 Chart of the Week: Making sense of the Medicare data dump Different medical specialties varied widely not only in how much they received from the Medicare program, but in how much of those funds went to overhead.
short readApr 8, 2014 Rising cost of child care may help explain recent increase in stay-at-home moms The rising cost of child care may be among the factors behind a recent rise in the number of stay-at-home mothers.
short readApr 4, 2014 Chart of the week: Still deep in the jobs hole At current rates of job growth, employment won’t reach its pre-recession level for more than five years.
short readApr 2, 2014 Feds may be rethinking the drug war, but states have been leading the way Faced with overcrowded prisons and soaring correctional costs, states are rethinking how to define and punish drug crimes.
short readMar 28, 2014 Lower support for death penalty tracks with falling crime rates, more exonerations Over the past half-century, public support for the death penalty has generally tracked increases and declines in rates of violent crime.
short readMar 21, 2014 Chart of the Week: Do firefighters or musicians have richer parents? How people’s incomes and jobs as adults compare with the households they grew up in.
short readMar 14, 2014 Chart of the Week: The ever-accelerating rate of technology adoption The World Wide Web, first conceived of 25 years ago this week, has been adopted by American society in record time.
short readMar 12, 2014 How U.S. tech-sector jobs have grown, changed in 15 years How many people work in the U.S. tech sector? A simple question with a complicated answer.
short readMar 7, 2014 Chart of the Week: Where international migrants are going to and coming from Interactive map of emigration and immigration worldwide.