Graph of the Day

From U.S. health care costs to the U.S. prison population,  the Graph of the Day series by The Century Foundation,  illustrates data and findings in public policy research.

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  Graph of the Day: Simple Solutions to Complex Problems

  Via Sarah Kliff , the OECD's Obesity Update 2012 provides an important example of a complex problem (soaring health care costs) that could be...
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  Graph of the Day: Putting the Squeeze on Labor

  The White House's new economic report of the president—broadly, an annual overview of how the president and his Council of Economic Advisors...
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  Graph of the Day: The Growing Education Gap Between Rich and Poor (Continued)

  New research on the state of U.S. education shows that income inequality has surpassed racial inequality as the single most significant predictor...
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  Graph of the Day: For High-Scoring Students, Socioeconomic Status Still Matters

  My colleague Greg Anrig's critique of Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010, discuess Murray's claim that top-tier...

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• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Simple Solutions to Complex Problems
  Feb 22, 2012
  Via Sarah Kliff , the OECD's Obesity Update 2012 provides an important example of a complex problem (soaring health care costs) that could be...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Putting the Squeeze on Labor
  Feb 22, 2012
  The White House's new economic report of the president—broadly, an annual overview of how the president and his Council of Economic Advisors...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Who Benefits From Our "Entitlement Society"?
  Feb 14, 2012
  “Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on it,” read a recent New York Times headline , capturing in a sentence the uncertain and...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: The Growing Education Gap Between Rich and Poor (Continued)
  Feb 10, 2012
  New research on the state of U.S. education shows that income inequality has surpassed racial inequality as the single most significant predictor...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: For High-Scoring Students, Socioeconomic Status Still Matters
  Feb 9, 2012
  My colleague Greg Anrig's critique of Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010, discuess Murray's claim that top-tier...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Why Does the U.S. Have More Lower-Wage Jobs than Europe?
  Jan 26, 2012
  The folks at the Center for Economic and Policy Research have a new report out this week that provides an interesting perspective on the now...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Busting the Myths about Food Stamps
  Jan 24, 2012
  Last week, I commented on a terrific graph published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities that refuted presidential candidate Mitt...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Getting the Numbers Right on Social Assistance
  Jan 17, 2012
  The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released an important rebuttal to Mitt Romney's erroneous claim that the majority of federal funding...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: One Job Available for Every Four Unemployed
  Jan 12, 2012
  The recently released December job numbers were a mixed bag in many ways, with optimism over the lower headline unemployment rate tempered by...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: December Job Numbers a Mixed Bag
  Jan 9, 2012
  There's certainly good reason to cheer the latest employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics—according to this morning's jobs report...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Capital Gains Drive Income Inequality
  Jan 4, 2012
  As the mainstream Republican establishment begins to coalesce around Mitt Romney following his caucus victory in Iowa, the former Massachusetts...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Half of Schools Fail to Meet “No Child Left Behind” Standards
  Dec 22, 2011
  According to a national report released Thursday, nearly half of America's public schools fell short of federal standards this year—the highest...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Long-Term Unemployment Benefits Do Not Increase Unemployment
  Dec 16, 2011
  Although the official unemployment rate remains stuck at around 9 percent—significantly lower than the "U6" rate of 16 percent, which includes...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Contractionary Policy is Contractionary
  Dec 13, 2011
  Goldman Sachs may be an unexpected source for anti-austerity rhetoric. Nevertheless, the year-end economic forecas t from the research arm of the...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: The Hidden Benefits of Regulation
  Dec 2, 2011
  By the end of President Obama’s second year in office, the federal government had issued more than one hundred significant new regulations, at...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Polls Show Americans Support Higher Taxes
  Nov 30, 2011
  The failure of the super committee fit easily into the prevailing media narrative that holds both parties responsible for the breakdown in...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Forget What You Heard — Corporations Pay Less Tax in the U.S.
  Nov 19, 2011
  A final word on the Citizens for Tax Justice and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report , covered previously here and here .
• Blog Post: Corporate Tax Breaks, Continued
  Nov 18, 2011
  The latest numbers on corporate tax evasion continue to amaze. According to a new report from Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Corporate Tax Breaks Cost U.S. Nearly a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars
  Nov 17, 2011
  Democrats and Republicans alike will admit that the corporate tax system is riddled with loopholes written by industry lobbyists. Still, it’s...
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Rising Health Care Costs, Redux
  Nov 15, 2011
  Yesterday I looked at the Commonwealth Fund’s latest annual report , which shows that U.S. health care costs continue to be the highest in the...