State Of The Nation Spreadsheet

"Despite an overall housing recovery, it’s suddenly becoming more common in several of the nation’s largest cities for homeowners to owe more on their home than it’s worth. The national ...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-cities-where-houses-are-suddenly.html

"China’s remarkable economic growth has created a middle class with cash to spend, and plenty of that disposable income appears to be going to alcohol. In 1978, China’s per capita booze co...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/alcohol-consumption-by-country.html

"In each state, there is one company that employs the most people. As a state’s largest employer, the company may have a disproportionately large impact on its economy as well as on the surroun...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-largest-employer-in-each-state.html

"As the weather starts to warm up, we start to think about the best ways to cool off. And what better way to refresh, rejuvenate and relax in warmer temps than a dip in a pool of clear, tranquil ...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/best-swimming-spot-in-every-state.html

"With St. Patrick's Day festivities set to kick off on Tuesday, one of the most popular drinking days of the year could mean long lines at your local bar. But some cities are more equipped to man...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/bartenders-per-capita-by-state.html

"Everyone knows Americans don't agree on pronunciations. That's great, because regional accents are a major part of what makes American English so interesting. Joshua Katz, a Ph.D student o...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/22-maps-that-show-how-americans-speak.html

"Gratuities, often paid in cash, are hard to track. A new report sheds light on an estimated $11 billion of annual unreported income." http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/how-m...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-much-do-waiters-really-earn-in-tips.html

"America's Unemployment Insurance Programs Need to Be Reimagined. For some workers, the recession produced historically long stretches of joblessness. A new Brookings study suggests ways to count...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/unemployment-duration-in-us-1950-2015.html

"The gender pay gap is alive and well everywhere in America, but it's more alive in some states than in others. It will take 144 years before Wyoming women working full time and year-round mak...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/heres-how-long-itll-take-to-close.html

"Having reached a peak in the late 1980s, the number of nuclear warheads has dropped significantly. But more countries now possess them." http://thebulletin.org/nuclear-notebook-multimedia

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/state-of-world-nuclear-arsenals-of-world.html

http://www.americashealthrankings.org

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/health-of-americans-by-state.html

"The number of violent crimes dropped across the United States by 4.4% in 2013 compared to the year before, according to estimates released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In the la...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-most-dangerous-states-in-america.html

"The world is spinning so fast that it can be hard to keep track of everything that is going on. Yet despite the fact that we can feel like we are being increasingly overloaded with information, ...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/state-of-world-are-you-ignorant-about.html

"In 1993, the U.S. Census released tally of the 76 most common street names in America. For well over 20 years, this was pretty much the only list that anyone had." http://www.washingtonpost.c...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/we-counted-literally-every-road-in.html

"A few weeks ago, we published a chart ranking the largest cities in America by the diversity of its top-line demographics. We simplified these demographics down to five major racial/ethnic grou...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-least-segregated-cities-in-america.html

"If you suffer a permanent injury on the job, you’re typically entitled to compensation for the damage to your body and your future lost wages. But depending on the state, benefits for the same...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/workers-compensation-by-state-for.html

"Fifty years ago, nearly a third of U.S. workers belonged to a union. Today, it's one in 10. But the decline has not been the same for every state. Here is a map showing how union membership has ...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/03/50-years-of-shrinking-union-membership.html

"A prominent fundamentalist organization is making headlines after creating an "anti-Christian bigotry map" which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocacy groups. The A...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-american-family-association.html

"Parents have made news recently after being detained for purposefully leaving children on their own, prompting renewed debate about so-called "free-range parenting." That includes Danielle an...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/02/minimum-age-kids-can-be-unsupervised-at.html

"Craving some silence? Head (quietly) toward the blue regions on the map above. Based on 1.5 million hours of acoustical monitoring from places as remote as Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/02/sound-levels-across-48-contiguous-states.html

"A leading advocacy group warns of a “worldwide deterioration in freedom of information” last year. Out of the 180 countries being surveyed, two-thirds have slipped in standards compared t...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/02/drastic-decline-seen-in-world-press.html

'With a country as large as the United States, winter comes in all forms. And some more than others, will suffer from the bitter cold that comes with snowy days. The slideshow on this page cou...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-was-deepest-snow-in-your-state.html

"Figures are from the 2011 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, by five years averages, and the CIA World Factbook. The infant mortality rate (IMR) is the number o...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/02/infant-mortality-rate-by-country.html

"State and local school vaccination requirements are implemented to maintain high vaccination coverage and minimize the risk from vaccine preventable diseases (1). To assess school vaccination co...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/02/vaccination-coverage-among-children-in.html

"*We used data from the Census Bureau, which has two catch-all categories: "managers not elsewhere classified" and "salespersons not elsewhere classified." Because those categories are broad and ...

http://sotns.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-most-common-job-in-every-state.html