State unemployment rates for November

Calculated Risk (see here) summarizes the data on unemployment rates by state for November.

Pew data on government benefits

The Pew Research Center (see here) report shows we are increasingly a "bipartisan nation of beneficiaries."

The fiscal cliff

If you are trying to get some perspective on the Fiscal Cliff, you could do worse than ponder this graph from the Economist (see here).

A statistic worth pondering

According to November 26 issue of BloombergBusinessweek, from 1993 to 2009 U.S. universities added administrators 10 times as fast as they added tenured faculty.

Thanksgiving economics

Timothy Taylor over at his blog the Conversable Economist (see here) has a nice post on the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner and he has the graph below.  The post is worth a read.

Data on inequality in Mississippi

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (see here) has a very interesting report on "inequality" in the United States (the report contains state-by-state data).  The summary graph below is for Mississippi (listed by CBPP as one of the states with the greatest inequality).

Geography of the Popular Vote

From TPMLiveWire (see here) we have the following (preliminary results):