1144 and counting: This ongoing project with the Sunlight Foundation takes a data-driven approach to building and maintaining a comprehensive inventory of the Trump Family’s conflicts of interest in the White House.
This real-time map shows the current status of 250+ school districts undergoing consolidation.
435 square miles of lake, 630 metric tons of phosphorus and one controversial plan to clean it up.
The state of Vermont doesn’t track what it spends on information technology, so we did it ourselves.
A river of booze flows through Vermont’s state-owned liquor stores, and I measured it.
With health care reform, charges for supplies become untethered from costs. (Vermont Business Magazine)
As the Vermont Legislature works to overcome a $100 million budget gap for fiscal year 2016, one of its largest fiscal liabilities remains outside the reach of the annual budget bill. The state gives up about $1 billion in tax breaks annually through policies that have remained largely unchanged in recent years, even as lawmakers struggle to balance budgets.
Unlike state spending, most of the tax breaks are permanent – unless they’re amended. They’re not voted up or down annually like the budget. But every two years, the state tallies how much money it’s not collecting. Here’s the latest glimpse of who gets to keep it.
State revenue data is released officially in a PDF format that limits the public’s opportunity to analyze the health of Vermont’s income streams.
This ongoing, interactive data visualization, created from official sources and updated monthly with some exceptions, provides four years of actual revenues in the state’s major funds.
Amid election-season rhetoric and political spin about jobs, this series of data visualizations documented labor statistics over time and across sectors, with both county-level detail and nationwide context. I conceived and designed the series, wrangled and analyzed the data, and wrote accompanying explanatory stories.
Vermont’s official unemployment rate may be approaching pre-recessionary lows, but when part-time and other marginally attached workers are factored in, the rate has been slower to budge.
Visually compare not just the official unemployment rates, but all six measures of unemployment in Vermont and around the country with three interactive graphics.