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Change in voter turnout from 2004 to 2008
Now that PolicyMap has US election data, you can use it to see some of the voting patterns that were talked about after the last presidential election. After the 2008 election, pundits noted that...
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Top 10: Falling Home Sales between 2008 to 2009
In a recent article, the New York Times reported this week that home sales have fallen to their lowest level in more than a decade. What places are being most affected by declining sales rates?...
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Population Receiving 2009 Supplemental Security Income
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal program that provides cash for basic needs to aged, blind, and disabled people with little or no other income source. The Social Security Administration...
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School Districts with free & reduced price lunch in 2009
With many states facing tough economic challenges, school programs are sometimes the first to be cut. To see where this might have the greatest effect, let’s see which school districts have the most...
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Counties with Hispanic households in poverty in 2000
Usually when we have these top-ten lists, we look at the percentages, since regardless of the indicator, raw numbers often just give us the most populous areas. The most populous counties, for...
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Counties with highest and lowest obesity rates, 2007
It’s always interesting when a map shows clear differentiating trends across the country that reflect distinctive aspects of different regions. Our religion maps are a good example of this, where...
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Least Populous Counties During 2005-2009
PolicyMap has just loaded data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (known as ACS), which provides 5-year estimates on Census-type data, updated on a yearly basis. For the next few Top 10...
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Counties with Highest Percent of Foreign Residents
When you think of places with concentrated immigrant populations, you generally think of cities. You wouldn’t go to a rural area to find a Little Italy or a Chinatown. And as you might expect, Miami,...
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Counties with Most Vehicles Per Household 2000-2009
“I’ll drive a Buick through San Juan.” “If there’s a road you can drive on!” -West Side Story It seems that automotively, life has improved since lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s 1950’s vision of Puerto...
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Top 10: Cities by Average Size of a Household
Sometimes our Top 10 lists come with a story. This one comes with an arrest. Between 2005 and 2009, Colorado City, Arizona, led the country in having the largest average household size among all...
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