Earlier this summer we reported that the “nation thinks Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa are ‘equally good.’” New data suggests that Wisconsin has the slight edge. However, Democrats favor Minnesota and Republicans favor Iowa.
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A look at revisions to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly jobs report data in light of President Donald Trump's firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer.
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In conjunction with our colleagues at Marketplace, we just launched a dashboard of key economic indicators. Called “The Dozen,” it provides a quick read on the health of the economy.
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As our 2023 - 2024 data journalism fellow Rithwik Kalale wraps up his time with us, he decided to look back on his year with the lab, lessons learned, highlights, and what’s to come.
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As the year comes to an end, we would like to thank you for supporting our mission to bring facts into focus. Once again in 2023, we provided data-driven reporting on a wide variety of topics, from education and the environment to health and public policy.
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Washington D.C., Florida, and Illinois had the nation’s highest rates of abortion in 2020, while D.C., Kansas and New Mexico saw the highest proportion of abortions obtained by out-of-state residents.
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Given that schools will likely continue to be a battleground for social issues like these, we thought it might be useful to provide a glimpse into some of what we found in our foray into the financing of school board campaigns in the three areas: Texas, Michigan, and Los Angeles.
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McCourtney Institute's May 2022 Mood of the Nation Poll results show that roughly 3 in 10 Americans favor unfettered freedom to chose abortion, while almost 1 in 4 prefer abortion to be “legal most of the time," which corresponds to the laws in almost every state while Roe v. Wade remains in force. Over 1 in 3 favor abortion to be illegal except in extreme circumstances.
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