Looking for statistics on the labor force, including current and historical unemployment rates? Check out the Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including tables on employment status, characteristics of the employed/not employed, and minimum wage earnings. […]
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Sports Journalism Resources
The second week in December is big in the sports world. The NFL season is peaking. The NHL, NBA and NCAA basketball seasons are well under way, NCAA football bowl match-ups are set and a new trade or free agent signing seems to be coming out of the MLB Winter Meetings every hour or so. So there’s […]
Black Friday
In honor of the arrival of Black Friday, here’s a few interesting facts about the wonderful world of holiday shopping: U.S. department stores hauled in $27.4 billion in December 2009, representing a 45 percent increase from the previous month. No other 2009 month-to-month increase in department store sales was greater. Fourteen percent of all department […]
It’s Turkey Time
Did you know that Minnesota expects to raise about 47 million turkeys in 2010? That’s tops in the nation, followed by North Carolina (31.0 million), Arkansas (28.0 million), Missouri (17.5 million), Indiana (16.0 million) and Virginia (15.5 million). Those six states together will probably account for two-thirds of all the U.S. turkeys produced in 2010. […]
Radical Cartography
Radical Cartography is a really cool website put together by Bill Rankin, a graduate student at Harvard University. He’s created some very interesting maps that present new ways of looking at transportation, commerce, income distribution and other topics in a variety of cities, including New York. Additionally, all of the maps, text and images on […]
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (http://people-press.org) is one of many projects from the Pew Research Center and examines the public’s interest in the news, as well as attitudes of and toward the press. View their reports and publications on News Media Read their latest numbers on the public’s view of […]
Facts for Features: Labor Day
Did you know that: the first observance of Labor Day – a parade of 10,000 workers – is believed to have taken place in New York City in 1882? 3.5 million workers face commutes to work of 90 minutes or more each day? there are 154.4 million, 16 years and older, in the nation’s labor […]
Housing Topics at the U.S. Census Bureau
Looking for housing data? You can find data on: home ownership historical to present U.S. rental vacancies median asking and sale price for the U.S. tables on housing affordability …and more! Go to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Housing Topics page. […]