HeyJaredAmerican Inequality
Data and maps on U.S. inequality, covering housing, healthcare, poverty, education, tech, and more.
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Charts that Explain the World No. 6 (opens the original)
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Welcome to your weekly briefing of the charts, maps, and insights that help you quickly make sense of the foundational patterns shaping our world today.Our sixth edition of Charts that Explain the World focuses on the environment and climate. In recent years, climate concerns have been pushed aside as agencies have been unable to publish data on the imp… Read more
Charts that Explain the World No. 5 (opens the original)
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Welcome to your weekly briefing of the charts, maps, and insights that help you quickly make sense of the foundational patterns shaping our world today.This is the fifth edition of Charts that Explain the World. We’ve had more than 50,000 readers dig in on this series and we really appreciate all your ideas on what to cover. Read more
How Government Steals our Time, with Annie Lowrey (opens the original)
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Every one of us has had that feeling of frustration - waiting in line at the DMV, struggling over complex tax forms, wishing that a passport process would speed up. For Lowrey, the time tax that government places on Americans is a complex story of democracy, access, and the failures of our social safety net. While some government operations like Social Security or Medicare or the Postal Service show us how government can work efficiently and at tremendous scale, many other programs like SNAP or
Charts that Explain the World No. 4 (opens the original)
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For the last month, we’ve been running a series called Charts that Explain the World and we wanted to share it with all of you today. We’ve seen a tremendous amount of excitement and positive support about these weekly briefings of the charts, maps, and insights that help you quickly make sense of the foundational patterns shaping our world today. Every Tuesday we’ll share new graphics, exclusive to our paid subscribers.We decided to launch this series because we’ve become so tapped into the wor
The Stealth Tax Destroying Housing Affordability (opens the original)
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The American housing crisis is buckling under a new weight. As soaring rents grab headlines, insurance premiums and property taxes have been slowly rising to astronomical heights, making housing affordability all but impossible. Insurers blame climate risks for heightened costs, yet new disclosures show these companies are retaining a record share of margins rather than paying out claims.Core housing rent inflation increased 30% from 2018 to 2024, adding significant stress to families across the
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