People don't really seem to have internalized that $7.25 is such a low wage that the US functionally doesn't have a federal minimum anymore.

Only about 68,000 people earned the federal minimum wage in the first seven months of 2023, less than one in 1,000 workers (0.1%).

gfx editors are everywhere

A more detailed/scaled chart of the percentage of US disposable income spent on food via Michael McDonough

incredible work here

Money is the reason why our lawmakers are so old

Helpful chart from Aatish Bhatia + Josh Katz + Margot Sanger-Katz on how bad the smoke was in NYC yesterday:

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The log scale is the problem

🥈 #SND44 Digital judges have awarded a Silver medal in the category Infographics: Politics to The New York Times: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Judges said: “Is there even a better way to tell this story?”

“Economists have long thought that slowing inflation demanded a painful rise in unemployment. But recent history has been full of surprises,” writes @PaulKrugman. nyti.ms/3OGamoX

So my project on prospects for a soft landing is up. I tried to highlight the common ground in this discussion (which is often testy), and also distinguish between two kinds of problems 1/ nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Please read the story that’s been 30+ years in the making, taught me the real meaning of fomo, humbled me to filth about the specialness of my own story—and gave me a sisterhood I never knew I needed so much nyti.ms/3VREJu3

House Republicans want to lower the deficit mostly by cutting discretionary spending. But they've been pretty vague about which programs they actually want to cut. Alicia Parlapiano and I took a look at a few possibilities. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Apropos of nothing, Weiyi (Dawn) Cai, Larry Buchanan and I analyzed more than 1,100 episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight and found that Tucker had repackaged white nationalist and other extremist talking points in the vast majority of his shows. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Turns out it was never about avocado toast.

To give a sense of the impact of Florida's coming abortion law, take a look at how it changes how far women throughout the South will need to go to get an abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy. nytimes.com/interactive/20… Claire Cain Miller Quoctrung Bui

Be sure to read Allison McCann on the growing abortion pill underground, full of incredible details and never-before-collected data. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The U.S. is a mortgage-ownership society, not a home-ownership society.

The U.S. has the 3rd lowest free-and-clear home ownership rate of these 28 countries, according to the OECD.
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Fascinating finding in here is that Republicans and black people largely agree on the use of the term black, while other Democrats prefer African-American. nytimes.com/interactive/20…