Is federal spending on the military about 50 times higher than on food stamps? That’s the message of a pie chart now circulating on the Internet. The pie chart is headlined, "Look closely at this ...

The chart above (thanks to Olivier Ballou) is an update of a chart we produced last year about this time, and shows the percent changes since January 1997 in the prices of selected consumer goods and ...

Do you know the happiness pie chart? If you’ve read a book or listened to a talk about happiness in the past 15 years, there’s a good chance you heard that 50 percent of our happiness is determined by ...

A misleading bar chart comparing modern carbon dioxide (CO2) levels to those millions of years before humans existed ignores a large CO2 increase during the human era that has changed the climate and ...

Update: I originally was only able to find data from the Department of Education website for bachelor degrees by field and gender back to 1993 and created the top chart above. Over the weekend, I was ...

Europe's job market is a historic disaster. The EU unemployment rate set a new all-time high of 12.2 percent, according to today's estimates. But it's the youth unemployment crisis that's truly ...

One quarter of American adults say they or a family member has put off treatment for a serious medical condition because of cost, according to data released this week by Gallup. That number is the ...

This week, Congress will vote on a massive farm bill that will set the course of U.S. food policy for the next half-decade. The old farm bill expired in 2012, and its replacement (pdf) is 959 pages ...