Publications

This posting links to a FactTank article about how to obtain census data even though federal websites are closed because of the government shutdown.

We’ve found that there are still several ways to access government data.

42 months after U.S. payrolls bottomed out, the economy still hasn't recovered all 8.7 million jobs wiped out in the Great Recession -- the longest and slowest recovery in the postwar era.

Do prizes result in more brilliant work from the world’s best and brightest? Apparently not, at least in mathematics.

Research over hundreds of years has consistently found that boys naturally outnumber girls at birth. The speculation is that this is nature’s way of countering the relatively high mortality rates of males, and creating more of a gender balance in the population. While historically, there have been about 105 boys born for every 100 girls […]

This links to a posting about the growing share of U.S. household income that goes to college-educated households, who take home a disproportionate share of aggregate income.

For the first time on record, nearly one out of every two dollars in aggregate U.S. household income went to the college educated.

This posting summarizes and links to a new Pew Research Center report that estimates population size and trends for unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.