Years Lost to the Financial Crisis

Years Lost to the Financial Crisis

In the daily chart for February 23 rd , The Economist analyzed various economic indicators to determine how many years were lost to th...

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Underemployment Increases to 19%

Underemployment Increases to 19%

  On February 17 th , Gallup released a chart tracking underemployment from January 2010 to February 15 th 2012.  Gallup calculates un...

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World's Best Organ Donors

World's Best Organ Donors

Yesterday's daily chart from The Economist compared organ donation rates across selected countries. The subject of organ donation ha...

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Religious Americans Experience Greater Well-Being

Religious Americans Experience Greater Well-Being

A recent Gallup report suggests a statistically significant relationship between religiosity (measured in part by frequency of church/sy...

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Census Bureau Releases Data on Voting Trends

Census Bureau Releases Data on Voting Trends

Earlier this week the Current Population Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau released revised data on voting trends from 1964 to 2010.  Th...

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Why Data Literacy is Important Today More than Ever

In a recent New York Times article , Steve Lohr discusses the growing need for data-literate employees in almost every sector as businesses...

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Number of Uninsured Americans on the Rise

Number of Uninsured Americans on the Rise

More Americans are now uninsured in 2011 than in 2008, according to a recent Gallup poll . The declining number of Americans who have h...

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8.1% Unemployment Predicted for Fourth Quarter

A survey conducted by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve involving 45 economic forecasters estimated that with current trends, unemployment...

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Disparity in Educational Attainment by Sex, Race Persists

Disparity in Educational Attainment by Sex, Race Persists

A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on the educational attainment level of young adults shows that educational disparities among...

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Unemployment Rises While Output Falls in Greece

Unemployment Rises While Output Falls in Greece

In a recent Wall Street Journal article , Alkman Granitsas discusses Greece’s unemployment rate for November 2011, which was released Thur...

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LinkedIn Exceeds Wall Street's Expectations with Strong Quarterly Showing

A Reuters article noted LinkedIn's strong showing in the fourth quarter of this past year, when its revenue of $167.7 million exceeded ...

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Looking for a Job? Try North Dakota

Looking for a Job? Try North Dakota

A recent Gallup survey shows that more employers in North Dakota were hiring rather than firing workers, and by a significant margin. This...

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Steve Jobs: The Most Underpaid CEO?

Steve Jobs: The Most Underpaid CEO?

A debate has been growing regarding executive pay and performance. While many financial-research companies, such as Oberatt, hold that pay...

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And the Winner for Highest Tax Rate Goes to…

And the Winner for Highest Tax Rate Goes to…

Despite the lively debate surrounding our current tax code , the tax rate on incomes of $100,000 in the United States is quite low compa...

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Job Openings Up in December

Job Openings Up in December

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 3.4 million job openings on the last business day of December, an incr...

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Teenage Pregnancy Rate on the Decline

Teenage Pregnancy Rate on the Decline

Data recently released by the Economist shows that the teenage pregnancy rate is on the decline, from almost 12% at the high of the 90’s, ...

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Getting Rich, Fast

Getting Rich, Fast

The Economist 's daily chart shows that, adjusted for age, and "assuming that Facebook's recently announced share offering i...

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Computation Error Explains Census Bureau's Incorrect Estimate of Mortality Rate

Researchers Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago found ...

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Asset Performance: the Winners and Losers

Asset Performance: the Winners and Losers

The Economist recently published data focusing on the asset performance of bonds, equities, and precious metals. Although many sectors...

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Facebook Files for I.P.O.

Facebook Files for I.P.O.

On February 1, Facebook filed for an I.P.O. (Initial Public Offering), taking the first measure towards becoming a publicly traded company. ...

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Union Membership in 2011

Union Membership in 2011

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released a report on union membership in 2011, and how the membership rate compares acro...

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Youth Unemployment in Europe Is "Scary"

Youth Unemployment in Europe Is "Scary"

Zero Hedge, a US financial blog, included what it referred to as “Europe’s Scariest Chart” in a post Tuesday. Rather than European debt ...

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Deadline Alert for ICPSR Summer Undergraduate Internship

The deadline for the ICPSR Summer Undergraduate Internship is Monday, February 13, 2012. For more information or to apply, see http://www.i...

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