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Your latest "war tax" update for three different groups of Americans - median, top 1%, and top 0.1%.
Link to the free visualization:
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Visits rose at 52 of 63 U.S. national parks from 2012 to 2025. After inflation, base budgets fell on 60 of 61 budget lines through FY2023.
Then the numbers stop. The FY2027 budget book leaves out the park-by-park table.
Our free map of what is left:
data4thepeople.com/p/nationa…
1/4 Of the 1,922 U.S. counties we ranked, outside college counties, Gwinnett County, Georgia, had the smallest share of rentals within reach of its median renter household: 10.5%. In 2005-2009, it was 25.5%.
Within reach means a rent of no more than 30% of after-tax income.
3/4 Gwinnett added about 41,000 rentals over this period, yet it lost about 5,500 rentals within reach.
Most of that drop was in older apartments. In 2005-2009, the median one rented for about $100 more than the median renter household could afford. By 2020-2024, about $400 more.
4/4 Renter pay showed no measurable rise. Of 37 large-metro counties where rent rose 25% or more after inflation, only Gwinnett and Cherokee showed a drop in full-time renter pay, both within the margin of error. In the middle county, it rose 15%.
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Lake Mead, 1935 to today, five years per second.
On October 19, it read 1,037.18 feet, its lowest since April 1937, when the lake was still filling.
It holds water from the Colorado River, which serves nearly 40 million people.
Play any of 16 rivers:
data4thepeople.com/p/world-r…
1/4 Last week, a D4TP reader in Europe told me that people in the U.S. under appreciate how much low water on the Rhine is complicating Europe's diesel shortage.
So we built a free map of daily river levels: 42 gauges on 16 rivers in 11 countries, back to 1858.
3/4 Downstream at Lobith, the records hold a twist.
The lowest level each year has dropped 236 cm. The lowest flow, only 11%. Federal studies found the riverbed has worn lower.
This year, flow fell to 553 cubic meters per second, its lowest in a record that starts in 1901.
4/4 On the Colorado, Lake Mead read 1,037.18 feet on October 19, its lowest since April 1937. Lake Powell's September low was its lowest since May 1968.
Pick a river and press Play:
data4thepeople.com/p/world-r…
Wholesale prices rose 6.3% in the 12 months to September 2026, the fastest pace since December 2022.
We took our PPI Scuba Diver down to look. Here are five things that stood out. 🧵
5/ Portfolio management fees rose 21.2%. Weighted by its share of final demand, the item added 0.42 points, the third-largest impact of any item.
BLS prices these fees from the value of the assets managed, so they tend to move with the stock market.
What are you finding in the data?
The full piece has every chart, plus the PPI Scuba Diver so you can explore it yourself:
data4thepeople.com/p/ppi-sep…
We drew the Producer Price Index as a scuba diver. Items whose prices rose pull it deeper as anchors. Items whose prices fell float above.
Here are 10 years of wholesale prices, ending at 6.3% in September 2026, the highest since December 2022.
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