National Institute on Money in State Politics Interactive: National carbon calculator - can you cut UK emissions? | Environment Turn autoplay off Turn autoplay on Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Edition: About us Today's paper Subscribe National carbon calculator: Can you cut UK emissions? Play UK prime minister and set the policy on energy, transport and other sectors and measure the carbon emissions generated Mairead O'Connor, Danny Chivers, Cai Ellis, Duncan Clark, Rosie Roche, Tom Grinsted theguardian.com, Wednesday 21 April 2010 06.15 BST Send to a friend Your IP address will be logged Share Short link for this page: Contact us Meet the Environment team Report errors or inaccuracies: userhelp@theguardian.com Letters for publication should be sent to: guardian.letters@theguardian.com Sorry, but our interactive content currently requires Flash Hot topics © 2016 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
Follow The Money Handbook You've probably discovered already that if you're interested in following the money in politics, OpenSecrets.org has done most of the heavy-lifting for you. But if you want to dig around in Federal Election Commission data on your own--or maybe you want to research state- or local-level data, which the Center for Responsive Politics doesn't track--then you've found your guide. Do-It-Yourself Data-Digging Published by CRP in 1994, this handbook was written especially for journalists by our former executive director, Larry Makinson, who developed the system we use to classify campaign contributions while he was a newspaper reporter. If you'd like to purchase the entire book--it makes a great textbook for aspiring journalists--please visit our e-store.
Comparing US states with countries: US equivalents Which countries match the GDP and population of America's states? IT HAS long been true that California on its own would rank as one of the biggest economies of the world. These days, it would rank eighth, falling between Italy and Brazil on a nominal exchange-rate basis. But how do other American states compare with other countries? Taking the nearest equivalent country from 2009 data reveals some surprises. Also see our other "country equivalents" interactive maps:Indian states and territories as countriesChinese provinces as countriesBrazilian states as countries Conjoncture : La course vers la reprise économique INFOGRAPHIE - A l'aube de 2011, où en sont les pays développés ? Dans quel état sont-ils sortis de la récession? Qui en profitera le mieux ces prochaines années ? Comparez les performances des pays depuis 2007 grâce à notre animation interactive. Dans la course vers la reprise, les pays ne courent pas au même rythme. Les bulles qui représentent chaque pays gonflent ou dégonflent en fonction du poids de la dette. Certains pays, comme la France, ont mieux résisté durant la crise grâce à des mécanismes surnommés «stabilisateurs automatiques» par les économistes. D'autres économies ont été touchées plus brutalement, comme en Allemagne. L'Irlande, enfin, connaissait des taux de croissance stratosphériques avant crise. » 2011, l'année des grands écarts de croissance » Cinq raisons de s'inquiéter, une d'espérer en 2011 » Europe: les États face à la faillite
An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. - By Chris Wilson The economic crisis, which has claimed more than 5 million jobs since the recession began, did not strike the entire country at once. A map of employment gains or losses by county tells the story of how those job losses first struck in the most vulnerable regions and then spread rapidly to the rest of the country. As early as August 2007, for example—several months before the recession officially began—jobs were already on the decline in southwest Florida; Orange County, Calif.; much of New Jersey; and Detroit, while other areas of the country remained on the uptick. Using the Labor Department’s local area unemployment statistics, Slate presents the recession as told by unemployment numbers for each county in America. Because the data are not seasonally adjusted for natural employment cycles throughout the year, the numbers you see show the change in the number of people employed compared with the same month in the previous year.
Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements See the data: bit.ly/snakeoilsupps. See the static versionSee the old flash version Check the evidence for so-called Superfoods visualized. Note: You might see multiple bubbles for certain supplements. These is because some supps affect a range of conditions, but the evidence quality varies from condition to condition. This visualisation generates itself from this Google Doc. As ever, we welcome your thoughts, crits, comments, corrections, compliments, tweaks, new evidence, missing supps, and general feedback. » Purchase: Amazon US or Barnes & Noble | UK or Waterstones » Download: Apple iBook | Kindle (UK & US) » See inside For more graphics, visualisations and data-journalism:
TNS Digital Life | Internet Statistics & Social Media Usage | Online Behavior & Trends Our Future Selves | Brave Old World | Columbia | News21 If you are a 50-year-old white woman, you have a 9.9 percent chance of a cancer diagnosis thus far in your lifetime and a 6.9 percent chance of diabetes. But fast forward 20 years: At 70 your risk for both diseases will roughly double, based on current trends. If you are Hispanic, you'll face different health challenges. A 70-year-old Hispanic woman has a much higher chance of a diabetes diagnosis than a white woman — 26 percent — but a lower chance of cancer, just 7.7 percent. As you age, you will probably see changes not only in your personal health, but also in your finances and the racial, ethnic and age makeup of your community. For instance, while the whole country is graying, each state is aging at a different rate. As the country as a whole is becoming more diverse, so are seniors, historically the whitest group.