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In the New York Times article “Racial Patterns Are Found in Recent School Budget Elections,” Sam Roberts explores the connections between race and age patterns and school budget decisions.  He found that: Budgets tended to fare worse in districts with a large number of white voters and a large number of nonwhite students. And in the more...

Social Explorer’s Andrew Beveridge appeared on WNYC’s the Brian Lehrer Show for the wrap up of the show’s Census series. You can listen to the entire segment here or on the show page.  (Beveridge joins the conversation at minute 30.) The Brian Lehrer Show has been using Social Explorer maps to engage WNYC listeners in their Anecdotal Census more...

Muslims and mosques are much in the news with the current controversy over a proposed mosque near the World Trade Center site, as well as protests against mosques around the nation. With all this attention on them, who are American Muslims?  Counting congregations and adherents can be difficult.  The US Census Bureau doesn’t track religion data–in more...

A recent court ruling struck down Proposition 8, and now gays and lesbians can legally marry.  How many people might this affect?  Social Explorer can help you find out. Since 2000, the Census has counted the number of unmarried partners, including same-sex unmarried partners, which can be an indicator of the number of people who might more...