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Why Republicans Are Coming Around on Social Security Taxes (opens the original)
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When it comes to Social Security reform, Democrats have traditionally been against benefit cuts and Republicans have been against tax increases. But one side of that balance is starting to shift. Over the past few months, several Republicans have come out in favor of payroll tax increases to bolster the program’s trust fund, including Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/09/08/social-security-fund-runs-dry-some-republicans-say-its-time-raise-t
Many Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet. How Many of Them Are Working Multiple Jobs? (opens the original)
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Recently, I watched the 2025 movie Good Fortune directed by and starring Aziz Ansari with Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen. Reeves, as the angel Gabriel, switches the lives of Ansari, who plays a struggling gig worker, and Rogen, a wealthy venture capitalist. It’s a good—and often funny—look at Americans’ struggles to make ends meet, especially in a gig economy where companies (particularly big tech) exploit their workers.The scene below gets right to the heart of it:With multiple characters working
I Replicated Two Tableau Dashboards With Claude. Here’s What Broke and What Didn’t. (opens the original)
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Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve run an experiment testing Claude’s ability to recreate Tableau dashboards using the standard Superstore sample dataset. Given the vast potential of AI-tools for data visualization, I wanted to see how effective Claude is at handing this task right now.In my experiment, I gave Claude screenshots of two dashboards (here and <a href="https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/nikkiviz/viz/SuperstorePerformanceDashboard_1770156406
Season 13 of the PolicyViz Podcast Is Here (opens the original)
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After a quiet summer, the podcast is back. Season 13 kicks off this week, and I want to give you a quick sense of what’s coming.What’s on the docketNew books, new projects, and a lot of conversations with people doing interesting work with data in videos — folks who are communicating data and telling stories in the formats people actually consume now. AI will come up because, well, of course it will, but this is not a podcast dedicated to AI. Accessibility will continue to be a thread and it sta
One Metric, Five Charts: Trying to Show SNAP Error-Rate Variability (opens the original)
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Last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) included provisions that cut food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program (SNAP) and imposed additional costs on state budgets starting this year. As of October 1st, most states will be required to pay a part of SNAP benefit costs, for the first time in the program’s history, which will have a big impact on the more than 40 million people who receive this support nationwide.But how much each state will have to pay and ho
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