GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION | A place for geography students and teachers to find interesting, current supplemental materials. Produced by geography professor Seth Dixon. Where We Came From, State by State Foreign immigration is a hot topic these days, but the movement of people from one state to another can have an even bigger influence on the United States’ economy, politics and culture. Americans have already seen this with the Western expansion, the movement of Southern blacks to Northern cities and the migration from the Rust Belt. The patterns of migration continue to change. California, shown above, has long been the destination of American dreamers from other states. It no longer plays that role; residents are leaving for greener pastures out East. Today, the state is still pulling in foreign immigrants, but the percentage of American-born transplants has shrunk significantly as more people leave the state. States in the South that have traditionally been dominated by people who were born there are seeing significant in-migration for the first time. The following charts document domestic migration since the turn of the last century, based on census data.
Editor for Google Maps [MapFab.com] Knoema. Atlas mondial de données et d'infographies Knoema est une ressource précieuse qui compile des milliers de datas publiques issues de centaines de sources concernant la plupart des pays du monde pour en proposer des représentations graphiques interactives. Knoema est un sorte de Google du data et de l’infographie. L’idée de base de cette plateforme libre dédiée à la connaissance est de connecter les datas ou données publiques disponibles avec des outils graphiques d’analyse et de representation. Knoema fonctionne à la façon d’un moteur de recherche classique et va vous permettre de trouver des données brutes et des infographies interactives sur une multitudes de de sujets dans des centaines de domaines différents. L’atlas mondial de données proposé par Knoema va ainsi vous permettre de croiser pays, sources, classements et sujets de forme très intuitive. Je le disais en commençant, Knoema est une ressource précieuse dans tous les sens du terme. Lien: Knoema Sur le même thème
Urban Population Map Close Source United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Population Division special updated estimates of urban population as of October 2011, consistent with World Population Prospects: The 2010 revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2009 revision. Graphic presentation of data based on The Guardian, 27 July 2007. This map is stylized and based on an approximate scale. It does not reflect a position by UNICEF on the legal status of any country or territory or the delimitation of any frontiers. Notes Because of the cession in July 2011 of the Republic of South Sudan by the Republic of the Sudan, and its subsequent admission to the United Nations on 14 July 2011, data for the Sudan and South Sudan as separate States are not yet available. Data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao, Special Administrative Regions of China. Data for France do not include French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte and Reunion.
Jobs Charted by State and Salary The industries that people work in can say a lot about an area. Is there a lot of farming? Is there a big technology market? Couple the jobs that people work with salary, and you also see where the money's at. You see a state's priorities. For example, look at California. For a drastic change, switch to Washington, D.C., where people who work in the legal and business sectors are much more common. Move the median salary up a bit, and you get a sense of overall salaries (and a correlating cost of living, kind of) as you check out different states. Anyway, it's an interesting first look at employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Map of Most Common Race It's been a challenge for me to fully understand what's been going on lately, so I find myself looking at a lot of data and maps. It kind of feels like grasping at straws, but at least it's something. The map above shows the most prevalent race in each county, based on data from the 2013 American Community Survey 5-year estimates. For reference, the national estimates from the 5-year 2013 estimates where 63.3% white, 16.6% percent Hispanic, 12.2% black, 4.8% Asian, 0.7% Native American or Alaskan, and 0.2% Pacific Islander. Click, drag, and zoom for details. Here's St. Similarly, below is Baltimore, Maryland. For me, it was interesting to compare nonwhite races, because whites tend to make up a high percentage that obscures the single-digit distributions. So yeah, there that is. The map doesn't show everything.
The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares How much extra money a county causes children in poor families to make, compared with children in poor families nationwide. Manhattan is very bad for income mobility for children in poor families. It is better than only about 7 percent of counties. Location matters – enormously. But even Putnam County is below the national average. These findings, particularly those that show how much each additional year matters, are from a new study by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren that has huge consequences on how we think about poverty and mobility in the United States. Consider Manhattan, the focus of this articleour best guess for where you might be reading this article. It’s among the worst counties in the U.S. in helping poor children up the income ladder. Here are the estimates for how much 20 years of childhood in Manhattan adds or takes away from a child’s income (compared with an average county), along with the national percentile ranking for each. For poor kids For average-income kids
Mapping America’s Futures What will America look like in 2030? We can already see that the population is aging and becoming more diverse, but how will those trends play out at the local and regional levels? And what if, in the future, we live longer or have more babies? These demographic shifts matter a great deal to states and local communities. To help visualize the future, the Urban Institute developed a tool as part of the “Mapping America’s Futures” series that projects local-level population trends out to 2030 (the button on the right will take you there). The rates are all reasonable assumptions, based on historical trends. A future with more births and longer lives looks very different from one with fewer births and high mortality. Top: Atanta, Shutterstock. Planning for growth and for decline:The futures of Atlanta and Youngstown A once-booming industrial powerhouse, the Youngstown area has been losing residents for decades. In Atlanta, the same forces have different effects. Shutterstock AP/David Goldman
Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably) You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach. Based on data drawn from media reports and state salary databases, the ranks of the highest-paid active public employees include 27 football coaches, 13 basketball coaches, and 11 dorks who aren't even in charge of a team. So are my hard-earned tax dollars paying these coaches? Probably not. So what's the problem then? There are at least three problems. Coaches don't generate revenue on their own; you could make the exact same case for the student-athletes who actually play the game and score the points and fracture their legs.It can be tough to attribute this revenue directly to the performance of the head coach. But wait. Most of these databases include only the coaches' base salaries, which are drawn directly from the state fund. Regarding the asterisks on the map:
For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap - Interactive Feature Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure and heart disease are the three most common chronic conditions in assisted living facilities: 82 percent of residents have at least one of them, according to a new government study. But what is alarming is how these ailments overlap. A Venn diagram based on data from the study, by the National Center for Health Statistics in 2010, shows just how often these three conditions coincide in patients, and why this overlap is becoming an important new field of study. There are more than 733,000 people in American assisted living facilities. People move there when they, or their families, decide they need help with daily activities, like dressing, but don’t need the fuller medical services of a nursing home. The study found that more than half the residents are 85 or older. Forty-two percent of assisted living residents had dementia. But treating patients with multiple conditions can be very difficult. Hannah Fairfield