Data & Eggs
Volume 168
In this week's edition: remembering the path to the 19th Amendment, tracking Trump and Biden’s campaign donations, and observing who’s actually wearing…
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How rigid is the middle class in the US, really?
Most people in America consider themselves “middle class”. But the truth is, most people do not fall in the middle class; and those that do often move in and out of it as their income fluctuates. Alice Feng and Amber Thomas assess the fluidity of the middle class in this piece for The Pudding, following 11,172 families over a 50 year period to see how they fare.
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Things you didn’t know (or maybe forgot) about how women got the vote
Last week marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the United States. In this piece for The Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz takes a look at some of the lesser known facts about the suffrage movement, including how it started, its key players, and how a tragic pandemic helped the cause.
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Money Tracker: How Much Trump And Biden Have Raised In The 2020 Election
With the presidential election just a few months away, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both raising huge sums. FEC filings show that Biden’s campaign committee raised almost $50 million for the month of July, bringing its total to $328 million. Trump’s camp, meanwhile, took in over $72 million last month, not even including money raised by the RNC and affiliated PACs.
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COVID-19’s Toll on People of Color Is Worse Than We Knew
New figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reaffirm that coronavirus is having an outsized impact on communities of color. People of color make up roughly 40% of the U.S. population, but accounted for 52% of all “excess deaths” in 2020 through July. And it’s not just Black and Hispanic populations that are suffering; the analysis also shows that Asian Americans are bearing a disproportionate burden.
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California COVID-19 masks: Who is following the rules?
Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, issued an order back in June that makes it a misdemeanor to be outside in crowded spaces without a mask. But are Californians actually adhering to it? The LA Times conducted their own experiment, observing passerby in busy areas of Venice, Long Beach, and Huntington Beach to see if they were wearing a mask correctly. The results weren’t pretty.