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Where work pays: Occupations & earnings across the United States

This interactive chart accompanies an economic analysis, "Where Work Pays: How Does Where You Live Matter for Your Earnings?"Educational and occupational choic…
Employment & Wages Healthy Economy
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Putting your major to work: Career paths after college

This interactive chart accompanies an economic analysis, "Putting Your Major to Work: Career Paths after College."Students’ career paths after college are ofte…
Education Employment & Wages
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Chronic school absenteeism in the United States

Chronic absenteeism is defined as when a student misses more days of school than a particular threshold—in these data, measured as 15 total days in the 2013-14…
Education
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Share of students with access to charter schools, by state

Explore state-level variation in charter school access and enrollment between 2000 and 2015.In the past 25 years, 43 states and the District of Columbia have p…
Education
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Figure 1: Total work permit applications received, FY 2003 to January 2025

"Work permit applications suggest prior immigration is still pushing up labor supply—for now"

"Low-income workers experience—by far—the most earnings and work hours instability"

Figure 3: Aggregate non-farm metrics, from "The softening labor market is still growing"

"The softening labor market is still growing"

Figure 4: Effect on GDP growth in 2025 under two immigration scenarios, in percentage points, from "Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration"

"Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration"

Figure 5: Paid vacation and paid holidays, OECD nations, in working days, from "A federal guarantee for earned paid time off"

"A federal guarantee for earned paid time off"

Figure 1: Total tax returns filed by each entity type, from "Modernizing partnership taxation"

"Modernizing partnership taxation"

Figure 4: Change in US-born and foreign-born employment from the prior year, from "The strong labor market has boosted US-born employment"

"The strong labor market has boosted US-born employment"

Figure 1: Economy-wide carbon dioxide emissions, by climate policy scenario, from "Climate tax policy reform options in 2025"

"Climate tax policy reform options in 2025"

Figure 5: Cumulative increase in civilian noninstitutionalized population 16+ since 2010 under alternative measures of population growth, from "New immigration estimates help make sense of the pace of employment"

"New immigration estimates help make sense of the pace of employment"

Figure 6: Share of ABAWDs living below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, by employment and self-reported disability status, 2021, from "The safety net should work for working-age adults"

"The safety net should work for working-age adults"

Figure 6: Project flow through interconnection queue, 2021 to 2023, from "Eight facts about permitting and the clean energy transition"

"Eight facts about permitting and the clean energy transition"

Figure 11: US venture capital investment in education technology over time, from "Twelve facts about the economics of education"

"Twelve facts about the economics of education"

Figure 4: Contribution of changing within-group participation rates to net change in labor force participation, from "Prime-age women are still driving the labor market recovery"

"Prime-age women are still driving the labor market recovery"

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