Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The first map above show the differences between the current minimum wage rate by state in 2024 with the inflation adjusted original Federal Minimum Wage of 25¢ per hour, equivalent to $5.60 per hour in October 2024, for jobs covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
And the map below shows how members of the US Senate voted.
This was the first time in American history the United States voted to go to war.
From the author:
Those counties in red voted Trump in all 3 elections and make up the bulk of counties (but not people).
Then you have the other combinations:
The map above shows the difference between current state minimum wage rates in 2024 with what they would have been had they been kept inline with inflation from 1968.
In 1968, the Federal US minimum wage for jobs covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, was $1.60 per hour.
In 2010, the Federal minimum wage was increased to $7.25 per hour where it has remained ever since.
However, if it had kept up with inflation from 1968 it would be now be over twice as a high at $14.82 per hour in 2024.
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The map above shows how much houses cost in 1950 in each US state in 2024 inflation adjusted US dollars, compared to what the average cost actually is in 2024.
In every single US state the increase was at at least double the rate of inflation from a low in Ohio of just 107% above inflation to a high in Alaska of 675% above inflation.
The following map shows the percentage increase above inflation:
The map above shows the percentage of single mother run households with children there are in each state. It ranges from a low of 9% in Utah to a high of 24% in Mississippi and 29% in Washington DC.
The data comes from the 2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from US Census Bureau.
Here is the full data by state:
The map above shows European countries with a smaller land area than that used for all roads and parking in the United States.
According to to Per Mile the US has an estimated 800 million parking spaces (for a total population of 335 million), or over 500 million parking space than registered vehicles.
The map above shows a very suprising fact, only 3 countries in the world (besides the United States) have economies that are larger than California’s when measured in nominal (exchange rate) Us Dollars (USD).
Here is a full list: