In the daily chart for February 23 rd , The Economist analyzed various economic indicators to determine how many years were lost to th...
On February 17 th , Gallup released a chart tracking underemployment from January 2010 to February 15 th 2012. Gallup calculates un...
Yesterday's daily chart from The Economist compared organ donation rates across selected countries. The subject of organ donation ha...
A recent Gallup report suggests a statistically significant relationship between religiosity (measured in part by frequency of church/sy...
Earlier this week the Current Population Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau released revised data on voting trends from 1964 to 2010. Th...
In a recent New York Times article , Steve Lohr discusses the growing need for data-literate employees in almost every sector as businesses...
More Americans are now uninsured in 2011 than in 2008, according to a recent Gallup poll . The declining number of Americans who have h...
A survey conducted by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve involving 45 economic forecasters estimated that with current trends, unemployment...
A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on the educational attainment level of young adults shows that educational disparities among...
In a recent Wall Street Journal article , Alkman Granitsas discusses Greece’s unemployment rate for November 2011, which was released Thur...
A Reuters article noted LinkedIn's strong showing in the fourth quarter of this past year, when its revenue of $167.7 million exceeded ...
A recent Gallup survey shows that more employers in North Dakota were hiring rather than firing workers, and by a significant margin. This...
A debate has been growing regarding executive pay and performance. While many financial-research companies, such as Oberatt, hold that pay...
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...
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...
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, ...
The Economist 's daily chart shows that, adjusted for age, and "assuming that Facebook's recently announced share offering i...
Researchers Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago found ...
The Economist recently published data focusing on the asset performance of bonds, equities, and precious metals. Although many sectors...
On February 1, Facebook filed for an I.P.O. (Initial Public Offering), taking the first measure towards becoming a publicly traded company. ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released a report on union membership in 2011, and how the membership rate compares acro...
Zero Hedge, a US financial blog, included what it referred to as “Europe’s Scariest Chart” in a post Tuesday. Rather than European debt ...
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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