What People Spend Most of Their Money On, By Income Group, Relatively Speaking

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By Nathan Yau

The more money people come across, the more things they can and tend to buy. More money on average means bigger houses, more expensive cars, and fancier restaurants. But what if you look at relative spending instead of total dollars?

For example, if a lower income group uses 9 percent of their total spending to pay a mortgage, does the higher income group also pay 9 percent? Or does additional income go to other spending categories?

It varies.

The charts below show how different income groups spend their money, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2020. Each chart represents a spending category. Each column represents an income group.

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Unstable Ground

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The Arctic is changing, but what does that mean for the north and the rest of the planet?

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the global average.

Climate change is transforming the Arctic, impacting people and ecosystems across this vast region. But because our climate system is connected globally, what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.

Discover how Arctic landscapes are changing and learn about the consequences for communities across the globe.

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Devoured

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How China’s largest freshwater lake was decimated by sand mining.

By Simon Scarr & Manas Sharma

PUBLISHED JULY 19, 2021

Decades of mass urbanisation in China have fuelled rampant demand for sand to make glass, concrete and other materials used in construction. The most desirable sand for this industry comes from rivers and lakes rather than deserts and oceans. Much of the sand used to build the country’s megacities has come from Poyang Lake, in the eastern province of Jiangxi.

Already ravaged by sand mining, the lake now faces a biodiversity crisis. At the start of this year, the provincial government revived a project to alleviate drought by regulating water flows between the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake with a 3 km-long sluice gate.

Chinese conservationist Zhang Daqian criticized the planned structure, saying it would cut the lake off from the river, “leaving Poyang a dead lake”.

The shallow lake, a national nature reserve, is also a rest stop for over 300 species of migratory birds, including the critically endangered Siberian crane. It is home to the endangered Yangtze River or finless porpoise, a short-snouted dolphin-like creature known for its ‘smile’ but of which there are only around 1,000 individuals left.

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How Men and Women Spend Their Days

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By Nathan Yau

For the employed, unemployed, and those not in the labor force, the charts below show the percentage of people doing an activity over a day in 2020. Switch between a weekday or a weekend day. Select activities to see individually.

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The pandemic marks another grim milestone: 1 in 500 Americans have died of covid-19

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By Dan KeatingAkilah Johnson and Monica Ulmanu Updated Sept. 15 at 9:00 a.m.Originally published Sept. 15, 20210

At a certain point, it was no longer a matter of if the United States would reach the gruesome milestone of 1 in 500 people dying of covid-19, but a matter of when. A year? Maybe 15 months? The answer: 19 months.

Given the mortality rate from covid and our nation’s population size, “we’re kind of where we predicted we would be with completely uncontrolled spread of infection,” said Jeffrey D. Klausner, clinical professor of medicine, population and public health sciences at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. “Remember at the very beginning, which we don’t hear about anymore, it was all about flatten the curve.”

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Olympians are probably older — and younger — than you think

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There were some outliers in the old days, but even in Tokyo, athletes range from boomers through Gen Z

By Bonnie Berkowitz andArtur Galocha July 31

As you would expect, two-thirds of the roughly 11,700 Olympians competing in Tokyo are in their 20s. Prime of life, blah blah blah.

But the rest of the athletes range from two preteens to four 60-somethings, and the older competitors nudged up the average age to 27 for the first time since 1948.

Since the first modern Olympics in 1896, the wide range of sports has allowed for a wide range of sportsmen — and sportswomen, beginning in 1900.

A 10-year-old boy competed in that first Games, and several septuagenarians have suited up. (A 98-year-old sort of competed in 1928, but whether he counts is debatable because he was entered in the art competition and also was dead.)

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See how California changed in the last decade, right down to your neighborhood

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The demographics of California’s communities are changing quickly. Take Alameda County. Today, the share of people who identify as Asian make up 32% of Alameda County — the county’s largest single demographic group. In 2010, that figure was 27%. White people made up 34% of the county back then. Now they are just 28%.

Scroll down to plug in your address to see how your community has changed

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Cycle of Many

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By Nathan Yau

This is a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans. Each ring represents an activity with a color. More dots means a greater percentage of people doing the respective activity during a certain time of day.

If you start at the top of the circle, you’ll be at 9:00am when most people who work are already working. Move clockwise, and you see the flows of the day. People break for lunch at noon, get off work around 5:00pm, shift to dinner and then relax. Most people are sleeping by midnight but a small percentage of people are work at night.

Focus on the inside rings versus the outer rings for a rough comparison between work life and home life, each with its own responsibilities.

Source

The data comes from the American Time Use Survey 2020, which is run by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I downloaded microdata via IPUMS.

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179 Reasons You Probably Don’t Need to Panic About Inflation

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By Josh Bivens and Stuart A. ThompsonAug. 18, 2021Gasoline (all types)March 2019March 2020March 2021Used cars and trucksMarch 2019March 2020March 2021Airline faresMarch 2019March 2020March 2021

Here’s how the price of gasoline changed each month throughout 2019, compared with the previous year. ↑ Red means the price went higher, while ↓ blue means it fell.

The coronavirus gripped the United States by March 2020. The economy halted. Gas prices ↓ plummeted.

This year, things have taken another turn. Gasoline prices have increased sharply, ↑ up 41.8% by July compared with a year earlier.

It’s a similar story for used cars and trucks, with prices ↓ falling during the pandemic shutdown, then ↑ soaring as things reopened.

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Race and ethnicity across the nation

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By John Keefe, Daniel Wolfe and Sergio Hernandez, CNNPublished Aug. 12, 2021

The United States is more diverse and has more people than ever before, with much of the growth occurring in and around metropolitan areas, according to the 2020 census. By plotting the population onto a map of the country according to density and group, it’s possible to get a bird’s-eye view of where we live and how we identify.

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