Tag Archives: statistics

Bush by the Numbers

Posted by JD Thomas on December 16, 2008 in Techfun Comments Off

Back on December 7th, Propublica.com released an article called Bush by the Numbers that compared statistics that shape American lives before and after George W. Bush took office. They included data like National Debt on Election Day, Percentage of Americans without health insurance, and Average number of Superfund clean-ups completed per year. Some of the information is quite striking and say more about the state of the nation than a dozen editorial columns.

The reader response to the article was so good, they have released a second edition using suggestions from Propublica and Huffington Post readers.

Putting 80,000 Jobs in Perspective

Posted by JD Thomas on November 21, 2008 in Techfun 1 comment

To put it in a larger context, as many jobs were eliminated at Citibank alone (52,000) as there are residents of Carson City, Nevada. Over all, this week more jobs were eliminated than there are adults and children living in the Sandusky, Ohio metropolitan area.