Interactive Sites and Ongoing Investigative Projects On Social Justice

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How the Deck is Stacked is cooperatively produced by PBS Newshour, Frontline, and Marketplace. The series covers a range of inequalities in the US. The rising cost of college, the shrinking middle class, and increasing inequality are just a few of the topics.

Patchwork Nation is an interactive map of the US revealing all kinds of demographic information by county.

Cooper Center Dot Map The Cooper Center is at the University of Virginia; the map uses 2010 Census Data to reveal residential segregation by census tract.

Making Sen$e Blog This link is to the blog, the most recent posts are at the top; the search feature is for The PBS Newshour site as a whole; include 'Making Sen$e' in your search terms if you want just information from the series.

Making Sen$e videos To access the videos, scroll to below the main video and click on 'Making Sen$e' below 'TOPICS' on the left side of the screen.

Other images / graphs depicting both US and Global Inequalities

• Top 1 % Cartoon
• Growing Owner - Renter Gap, US
• Eliminating Poverty Gaps, US
• Income Inequality, OECD Countries
• Increased Inequality, GINI Index
• Poverty and Inequality Increased in Areas of Rapid Growth
• Poverty and Inequality Intersect
• Persistent Poverty Gap, US
• Income Among Older Americans
• Persistent Racial Ethnic Inequality, US
• Wealth Increases in US
• More Than Half of Young, Single Women with Children are Poor
• Poor College Grads Compared with Poor HS Grads, US
• Global Inequalities
• Wealth Distribution Depicted as Land, US
• The Other American Dream, Pew: Social Mobility, Race and Opportunity
• The Other American Dream, Pew: Percent Success by Race