Data visualizations Laws and policies
by ptdriscoll
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What drives income inequality?
If we agree that too much wealth in the hands of too few stymies the economy, and even democracy, what do we do?
With the middle class losing ground despite healthy corporate profits, politicians and pundits gladly harp on tax rates, migrant populations and other soft targets to prescribe solutions for growing income disparities.
I decided to see what the data says.
Using World Bank datasets, I analyzed more than a dozen factors to see how they might relate to income distribution, defined here as share of income held by a country’s top 10 percent of earners.
Communities Data visualizations
by ptdriscoll
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Rural teens know their neighbors more than teens in cities
Where teens live makes a difference in how well they know their neighbors, shows an analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
The data comes from a school-based survey of 6,504 youth in grades 7-12 in the U.S.
Nearly 4,700 adolescents living in either rural, suburban, urban or several other types of neighborhoods responded to: “You know most of the people in your neighborhood.”
Results show 83 percent of rural teens said yes, while 69 percent of suburban teens and 70 percent of urban teens said they do.