Synopsis of our research: The United States federal government currently under-funds tax fraud investigations. State governments, on average, lose money investigating SNAP fraud. Summary of Findings There were nearly as many food stamp (SNAP) investigations as there...
Quick details: 53% of people believed false information presented to them on an anti-vaccination website. It took only five minutes of reading an anti-vaccination website for people to start believing a new misconception. Trust in existing authority, especially...
Religious or not, Lent can be a great time of year to give up a distraction and refocus on other things that might be more important in our lives. While popularized in religious circles, Lent is spreading into the secular world, as more people participate in the...
Welcome to our bi-weekly series where we analyze average internet speeds in a clustered region in the United States. Today, we're looking at three states in the upper-left corner of the United States: Washington, Oregon and Idaho, known most commonly as the Pacific...
Last updated by Ryan Whitacker on March 17, 2017. Americans: prepare to get out your wallets to pay Uncle Sam. After sifting through Trump's budget proposal, Reuters recently reported Trump “wants Congress to shell out $1.5 billion for the border wall with...
The Data in the News Series looks at current events through the lens of data. We look at interesting quantifiable trends, find new and sometimes spurious correlations, and analyze data-based claims made by politicians and public figures.
