COVID: No Good States
I've been hearing increasingly dire reports about Covid infections in the news lately. How bad is it really? Looking at Covid-19 numbers for all the states, it's hard to say that any of them are ....
Category: Social Policy
You’re No Abe Lincoln
If there's one thing you can give Trump credit for, it's chutzpah. OK, it's easy to laugh at his claim to be the best president for blacks since Abe Lincoln. But some of his specific ....
My Size/Intensity Technique Shows Up in Washington Post?
For a few years now, I have been experimenting with a way to display demographic, economic, political, and other data via "size/intensity" or "box" plots. The idea is that if you want to compare some ....
Portland Disturbances Week by Week
Photo of federal officers, Portland, Oregon, 6/18/20, REUTERS/Nathan Howard, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/federal-government-under-scrutiny-for-crackdown-on-portland-protesters?ref=hvper.com. 1) Everything Trump does is about publicity. He didn't want a Wall to stop illegal immigrants, he wanted a Wall to symbolize stopping illegal immigrants. ....
Mistreated Food Workers are a COVID Hotspot
Jane Mayer’s article “Back to the Jungle,” in the 20 July New Yorker, looks at the labor struggle in a Delaware poultry plant as a microcosm of how food workers in America today are at ....
US COVID Deaths: Update
How is the US doing now that lockdown is being eased in many states? 13 weeks of weekly COVID-19 deaths/capita, for different sets of states. Here is a 3D version of the figure shown in ....
Police Attacking Journalists During Protests
Excel spreadsheet: policeJournalists-1Download Journalists have made numerous reports this past weekend of attacks on themselves by police. This has occurred in many jurisdiction and (especially in Minneapolis) to many different news sources. I've created this ....
Covid-19 Pandemic Week-By-Week
It feels like the winter of our covidiscontent has lasted for years, and the date of each new emergency has already become hazy. Therefore I created a chart (see below for image and link to ....
Medical Infrastructure
One of the main threats of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it will overwhelm the medical system. Therefore when thinking about that risk, it would be useful to know how big the medical system is. ....
Unasked Questions in the Middle of a Crisis
Just the kind of investigative reporting we need (photo NY Times, from start Trump term). News coverage of this crisis is typical: wall-to-wall reporting of a small number of facts over and over again, giant ....