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Visualizing the Wealthiest People in America & Their Generosity
Becoming a successful billionaire is the dream of many Americans. But often times people are more impressed by the charitable actions of billionaires, rather than by their success. This may be why...
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A Visual Guide to State Taxes
The midterm elections are right around the corner, and President Trump just announced he wants to cut middle class taxes by 10 percent. It’s obvious people don’t like paying taxes, and letting workers...
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Visualizing $21 Trillion of National Debt: Which Presidents You Should Blame...
Ernest Hemingway once supposedly wrote, “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Hemingway’s observation looks increasingly spot on when it comes to the U.S. national debt, which...
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Mapping Extreme Poverty Around the World
A new report from the World Bank just landed, finding that a record low of 10% of humanity now live in extreme poverty, down from 11% in 2013. But poverty rates aren’t anywhere close to equal between...
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Find Out Which City is Adding the Most Jobs in Your State
The years of the jobless recovery are long gone as the national unemployment rate now sits below 4%, and some cities are seeing extremely high rates of job growth coupled with strong wage gains. But is...
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America’s Middle Class is Vanishing. Nearly Half of Workers Earn Less than...
The U.S. economy is booming. Republicans think President Trump deserves much of the credit for cutting business and individual tax rates combined with a deregulation agenda. And Democrats believe...
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Visualizing the Relationship Between Corruption and Economic Growth Around...
How should we think about corruption as it relates to economic growth? Some people argue that corruption helps to “grease the wheels” of an economy, overcoming bureaucratic obstacles to getting things...
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Visualizing the Huge Disparities Between People's Wealth Around the World
Comparing wealth inequality numbers across several countries can be very tricky. Countries have different methodologies for calculating wealth. The cost of living varies dramatically within and between...
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Visualizing Financial Literacy Rates Around the World
What is financial literacy? The S&P’s Global Financial Literacy Survey defines it as the ability to understand essential financial concepts in making informed decisions about saving, investing and...
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Find Out Which States Have the Most Expensive Car Insurance Rates in 2018
There’s a lot that goes into determining how much you pay for car insurance. Your age, gender, marital status, driving record and perhaps most importantly your home address are all major factors. This...
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All the World’s Billionaires in a Single Map
If you added up all the money of every billionaire in the world, you’d have about $8.9 trillion in wealth as of 2017. That represents the greatest total growth in wealth among billionaires ever. That’s...
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What’s the Average Cost of Utilities Where You Live?
If you are trying to save money, take a look at your electrical usage. That’s the message from a new report detailing average utility costs across five different categories for every state across the...
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Visualizing Where Obamacare Rates Are Exploding
Open enrollment for health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, will last until December 15, 2018. Unless you get insurance through your employer, you might be in for a...
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See How Much More Expensive Childcare Is than Getting a Higher Education
Unemployment in the U.S. is now hovering around its lowest point in almost half a century, and pretty much anyone who wants a job right now can get one. But here’s one segment of the workforce that may...
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Visualizing the Most Innovative Companies in 2018
"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." So said Mark Zuckerberg, back when Facebook was still growing rapidly and not engulfed in so many public...
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Visualizing the Aftermath of the Real Estate Bubble (2007-17)
The economy is at full employment, the stock market is doing fine, and memories of the Great Recession are finally starting to fade. Unfortunately, not everyone is feeling the love of a growing...
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How Much Longer Until the U.S. Debt Bubble Bursts?
The American government is fast approaching the $22 Trillion mark in national debt. That’s about 137% of our entire GDP, one of the highest rates of indebtedness in the entire world. If the government...
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Top 50 Places to Live in the United States in 2018
There are lots of ways to compare cities against each other. To name only a few, you could look at average income, expenses, housing prices, crime rates, the quality of schools, traffic, proximity to...
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This Chart Shows Which States Produce the Most Wind Energy
There are lots of problems with wind power. Wind turbines are ugly and loud. They kill lots of birds. They only produce electricity if the wind is blowing, obviously. Plus, they’re expensive, relying...
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How Much Money Americans Need for Economic Security in Every State
1 out of 3 adults in the U.S. is economically insecure, meaning they don’t have the resources to provide for housing, food, transportation and childcare. That is according to a new report from the...
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