Data Visualizations
Data showing the current geographic distribution of the mortgage interest deduction are key to understanding how federal tax decisions would affect the states. more
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Data VisualizationsRhode Island Overhauls Public Pensions
Faced with rising pension costs, Rhode Island passed changes to its public sector retirement system that go further than the reforms of any other state.
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- November 21, 2011
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Data VisualizationsTransaction Infraction
An interactive graphic demonstrating how banks can reorder a checking account customer’s transactions in a manner that maximizes overdraft fees.
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- November 21, 2011
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InteractiveThe Pew Budget Challenge
Tough choices are required to solve the debt crisis, as the Super Committee knows. Can you make them? Find out by taking the Pew Budget Challenge! Choose from more than 100 spending and tax policy options to reduce the national debt to a sustainable level of 60 percent of the GDP in the next 10 years
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- November 15, 2011
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InfographicHow States Estimate Revenue
A number of states have seen tax collections come in below forecasts in recent months as the nation continues to struggle with a weakening economic outlook.
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- November 11, 2011
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Data VisualizationsHarrisburg and a Brief History of Municipal Bankruptcies
Harrisburg, PA, recently filed for bankruptcy, raising fears that other cities and towns may follow suit. Pennsylvania's capital provides an example of the structural problems, political gridlock, and unfortunate events that, over time, can push a city into an extraordinary crisis.
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- November 11, 2011
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Data VisualizationsFees and the Unbanked
An interactive map highlighting the checking account practices of the 10 largest U.S. banks and the percentage of people without bank accounts in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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- October 26, 2011
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ChartTen Charts Essential to Understanding the Federal Debt
Ten charts that illustrate how the choices made over the last 10 years contributed to our nation’s debt.
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- October 11, 2011
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Data VisualizationsChildren's Dental Health
Pew assessed and graded all 50 states and the District of Columbia, using an A to F scale, on how well they are employing eight proven and promising policy approaches to strengthen dental health and access to care for disadvantaged children.
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- May 23, 2011
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Data VisualizationsMeasuring Transportation Results
States spent an estimated $131 billion on transportation in fiscal year 2010, but many cannot answer critical questions about what returns this investment is generating.
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- May 11, 2011
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Data VisualizationsChecking Account Risks at a Glance
The Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project conducted a study of checking account terms and conditions that examines both the state of the marketplace and the effect of current regulations covering these accounts.
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- April 27, 2011
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Data VisualizationsA Decade of Pension Reforms
The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money set aside to pay for them grew to at least $1.26 trillion in fiscal year 2009—a 26 percent increase in one year—according to a Pew report.
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- April 25, 2011
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Data VisualizationsThe Revolving Door of America's Prisons
The correctional landscape varies dramatically in scale, policy and practice from state to state. Pew's analysis of state level data uncovered interesting findings related to prisoner releases and rates of recidivism in the past decade.
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- April 11, 2011
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Data VisualizationsPoll Results: Economic Mobility and the American Dream
The Pew Economic Mobility Project conducted an update to its 2009 national poll to reassess the public's perceptions of economic mobility and the American Dream two years later, as the nation emerges from the Great Recession.
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- March 19, 2011
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Data VisualizationsHome Visiting Inventory
The following data from the 2010 Pew Center on the States home visiting survey of agency leaders provide an inventory of FY 2009-2010 state home visitation programs, models, and funding.
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- March 1, 2011
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InfographicLegislative Control and Redistricting, 2011
Of the 7,382 state legislative seats, Republicans gained nearly 700 in 2010.
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- January 31, 2011
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InfographicLegislative Control and Redistricting, 2010
Winning control of legislative chambers is especially important this year, because some state legislatures will be drawing new congressional and statehouse districts based on population changes revealed in the 2010 census.
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- January 15, 2010