Economy

CEO Pay vs Worker Pay

 * 1) CEO pay much greater than average worker pay
 * 2) Graph, ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay, 1980 to 2009
 * 3) Graph, growth of CEO pay vs avg worker pay, 1966-2009
 * 4) Table, CEO pay ratio vs average worker pay, US vs other countries
 * 5) Graphics, top CEO pay for US companies. JC Penny CEO gets 1795 times the pay as their average worker!

College in the US

 * 1) 10 college myths debunked
 * 2) Graph, Earnings of college grads vs college costs
 * 3) Graph, College costs and median family income, 1982-2012
 * 4) Different college costs in Minnesota
 * 5) Average net price of college tuition for all US states. Does not appear to count financial aid.
 * 6) Annual college costs for private vs public, 2002-2010. Good illustration show how much costs went up.
 * 7) College cost growth rate 1982-2007. During this time college tuition and fees has gone up 450% while medical expenses have gone up 250%. Backup image.
 * 8) Federal Pell Grants vs total college costs, 1976-2008.

Consumer Price Index

 * 1) Cpi change broken down by CPI category, past 10 years, graph. Each point is a 12 month percent change.

Debt

 * 1) List of countries by external debt
 * 2) Per capita debt by country
 * 3) US Debt Clock
 * 4) Public debt map of the world

Dollar, US, purchasing power over time is dropping

 * 1) Purchasing power of US Dollar, 1900-2012. Notice steep downslide.
 * 2) Purchasing power of US Dollar, 1774-2008. Includes years the US was on the gold standard, and when the US was not.
 * 3) Cost of living in the US by state. Circle graph. Shows how people are struggling more in certain states. A few major cities in each state are also broken down.

Federal Reserve- FRED2

 * 1) Lots of graphs from the FedRes.

Gallop Economic Confidence

 * 1) Gallop Economic Confidence and Economic Outlook. You will need access through your university. Weekly graph here. Economic confidence index daily graph with time sliders.

General

 * 1) Americans lack financial literacy
 * 2) WeTheEconomy teaches people basic info on the US economy using short, free movies.
 * 3) FRED2. Federal Reserve data and graphs for free. With time sliders like Google Finance.

Healthcare costs

 * 1) Graphic, Cost of healthcare vs life expectancy for many countries
 * 2) Graph, US CPI vs US medical care costs, 1948-2012.
 * 3) Graph, cost of 1 day in hospital by country
 * 4) Healthcare costs as percent of GDP by country. 2006 data.
 * 5) Graph, US National debt vs GDP. 1791 to 2011.

Home Sales

 * 1) Existing home sales (units) since 2000.
 * 2) Monthly median home sales price since 2000.
 * 3) Monthly housing inventory since 2000.
 * 4) Existing home sales, months of supply since 2000.

Minimum Wage

 * 1) Total US workers: 143,212,000. At least age 16 and paid min wage or less: 3,550,000. Percent of US workforce paid min wage or less: 2.5%.
 * 2) Minimum wage workers from BLS.gov

Income and taxes

 * 1) Personal exemption as percent of income for 1913, 1975, 2014.
 * 2) Real wages haven't changed in decades. Pew Research. Oct 2014.

Small business

 * 1) 99.7% of US businesses are small businesses with less than 500 employees.

Unemployment

 * 1) How is the unemployment rate defined? The U3 is the most commonly reported unemployment rate, but only includes the total unemployed vs the civilian workforce, it does not include the gov't workforce. The U6 shows a better picture: "total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers."
 * 2) Lots of data from US BLS in tables and text files, including unemployment, inflation, employment, pay and benefits, productivity, spending and time use, workplace injuries, employment projections
 * 3) Unemployment in Europe
 * 4) Graph of US unemployment since 1950
 * 5) BLS employment report.

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