The Economic Policy Institute defines a “good” job as “one that pays at least 60% of the median household income and also provides health care and retirement benefits.” – Sociological Images

Would have been more interesting to see 2007 data as well – I imagine 2008 is a bad comparator.

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From the Queen on down. Click on “fullscreen” to vew a large zoomable version.  Related Guardian article. (via)

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You always see these stats chopped apart to make one side or other happy – it’s nice to see it just laid out clearly.

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Comparison of some economic and financial indicators

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A slightly different measure of unemployment – this one based on online job listings (the Monster.com employment index).

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Interactive ranking of performance on several factors.

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Infographic on potential tax receipts and savings. (via)

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Combines relative elevation, depth, and volume. I’m not so sure they needed to be overlapping (maybe vertically staked would have been better?), but it’s still a nice graphic. (from wikipedia’s Great Lakes page, via Kelso’s corner)

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A strange visualization of the decline of imperialism – colonies explode out as they are granted independence. (via)

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Use the slider to browse the changing political makeup of America, 1960-today.

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It’s hard to keep up with all the data sets that make it up onto many eyes.

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Yet another depressing graphic:

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oil demand, 1980; 2008; 2030?

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A fantastic graphic laying out the doomsday arguments for the believers AND the skeptics. Great work from Information is Beautiful (as usual).

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