Charts

Enter your zip code to find out the SNAP work requirement waiver “eligibility gap” in your location during the Great Recession (in 2009) and during an expansion (in 2018).

A new Hamilton Project data interactive, “Chronic Absence: School and Community Factors,” examines the factors that affect learning at local elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States.

Explore state- and county-level economic vitality in this Hamilton Project interactive feature.

Explore state-level variation in child exposure to food insecurity over the past decade.

This interactive map describes the prevalence of chronic absence, the share of students missing 15 or more days of school, during the 2015-16 school year.  The interactive allows anyone to explore rates of chronic absence at the school, district, state, and national levels by school and student characteristics.

This interactive feature allows users to see the distribution of annual earn­ings across the United States for a given occupation and age group, adjust­ing for cost of living and taxes. Users can compare wages by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area, or by state.

In this interactive, The Hamilton Project explores how college majors and occupations interact to produce a wide range of labor market outcomes. By separately examining men and women of various ages who graduate with particular college majors, labor market returns to college can be better understood. 

In this interactive, THP analyzes whether rates of chronic absenteeism provide meaningful differentiation between schools, as required in the statute for the fifth indicator. We find that across the nation and in every state, rates of chronic absenteeism meaningfully differentiate between schools, meaning that rates of chronic absenteeism are widely distributed across schools and the lowest performing schools are clearly identifiable. In each state there are substantial differences across schools in rates of chronic absenteeism.

Explore state-level variation in child exposure to food insecurity over the past decade.

Explore state-level variation in charter school access and enrollment between 2000 and 2015.

There has been tremendous focus in recent years on the plight of the typical American worker. In this interactive chart, users can explore eight profiles by comparing employment, occupation, and earnings patterns between 1990-2013.

Using major-specific earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, The Hamilton Project has created a student loan repayment calculator that shows the share of earnings necessary to service traditional loan repayment for 80 majors. 

The geographic variation in water withdrawals across the country underscores both the complexity of America’s water challenges and the importance of a diverse set of policy reforms. See The Hamilton Project's interactive maps to compare county-by-county variation in total water withdrawals for irrigation, thermoelectric, and domestic withdrawals.

Compare the annual median earnings from career start to retirement for 80 majors.

In 15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget, The Hamilton Project featured a diverse group of proposals by leading budget and tax experts from a variety of backgrounds, including academia, the private sector, and a range of NGOs experts for reducing the federal deficit while also encouraging broad-based economic growth.