Mike Maciag

In January, more than 80% of Americans will live in states with governments entirely controlled by one of the two major parties latimes.com/politics/story…

@BridgetCarey Nicely done! And good job incorporating the bike rack

My first Trunk or Treat last night and I won most creative! 🏆 Music. Animatronics. Crunch bars. Spared no expense. But seriously … did I just make my first immersive experience?!! Y’all I am hooked! Hold on to your butts.

Announcing a new @IPUMS tool for variable search across all microdata collections! Look for "DISCOVER IPUMS VARIBLES" in the SUPPORT category on the left menu of any IPUMS splash page. Here is a search for the term "mortgage." 1/

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.

@danvock These are great for practicing: voxamps.com/product/amplug…

I love traveling, especially for fun. But I really wish I could figure out a good way to practice guitar away from home, without lugging a guitar on an airplane. Rentals are usually too pricey and out of the way. Any good tips for practicing away from home?

@cbgoodman A lot of this has to do w/ the availability of data. Florida has what many consider to be the best state open records law in the country. NY and CA also publish a ton of data. Not the case for Texas, though.

Perhaps obvious. Also perhaps worthy of saying more often. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Long COVID likely contributing to lower labor force participation. Interesting new @federalreserve report: federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/…

Choose your own adventure

Job openings for state and #localgov are still very high, although the rate for education jobs dipped in June

Here's a fascinating look at driving around DC and Arlington in the 1940s youtube.com/watch?v=RDkRJv…

@danvock Lots of good details in that GAO report. They have state level data in the appendix.

Poor, minority communities more likely to have bad roads, study finds - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/transportation…

NBER should declare that the economy is “pretty weird” right now

This is really well done. So much great journalism has largely been lost as news orgs haven't digitized all of their archives

If you see any national crime stats cited for last year, take them with a grain of salt. Really good @MarshallProj summary here of some of the data reliability issues bit.ly/3OEfMOj

@andrewvandam Look forward to reading your work. You'll certainty never run out of ideas!

@mikemaciag Mike! Thank you so much! Honestly, I’d be surprised if I didn’t end up being inspired by something you’ve done at some point anyway. One of the GOATs of descriptive data journalism!

Great news: The Post is launching a data column! Less great news: It's got my big, dumb face all over it. The worst news: There's an animated gif. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

@BridgetCarey Ugh, sorry to hear.

Everything is on fire in the world so of course today my son tests positive for Covid. (We haven’t had it yet.) His daycare dropped mask requirements last week. He was scheduled to get his vaccine Monday. So close.

Losses since before the pandemic began are likely greater than this chart showing changes since 2019. Census uses March as the reference month, so March 2020 data (not shown) likely reflect some temporary cuts. (2/2)

Some areas of government have incurred much larger job losses than others. Data released last month from the #Census Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll provide what's likely the most detailed national snapshot so far. (1/2)

Americans view state and local governments slightly less favorably than nearly 3 years ago. Still better than the federal government, though. More from new @pewresearch poll pewrsr.ch/3H9dtj9