Attitudes toward Tea Party

Nate Silver tracks polls about Tea Party over time.

Life Expectancy and Income

Note that increases in life expectancy increase rapidly and then level out. (Click on image to enlarge).  This indicates that in the developing world there is a strong relationship between growth in income and life expectancy, but once a certain level is reached (around 70 years), the curve flattens out and further increases in income [...]

Relative Wealth/Relative Deprivation

From “The Spirit Level”

Peoples’ Issues

Survey after survey has found that the above graphic provides a good synopsis of what the citizens of the U. S. care about. It is fair to ask how much progress Congress (under leadership that promised ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’) has done.