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US Medical Debt Rates by Income, Race, and Ethnicity (2020)

Medical Debt Rates by Income, Race, and Ethnicitygraph by Kylie Murdock, Joshua Kendall, and David Kendall; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Murdock, K., Kendall, J., & Kendall, D (2023). Medical Debt Hits the Heart of the Middle Class. Thirdway:… Continue reading US Medical Debt Rates by Income, Race, and Ethnicity (2020)

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Unlike Medical Spending, Medical Bills In Collections Decrease With Patients’ Age

Unlike Medical Spending, Medical Bills In Collections Decrease With Patients’ Agegraph by Michael Batty, Christa Gibbs, and Benedic Ippolito; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph (double y-axis) Visualization Source: Batty, M., Gibbs, C., & Ippolito, B. (2018). Unlike medical spending, medical bills… Continue reading Unlike Medical Spending, Medical Bills In Collections Decrease With Patients’ Age

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Cost of Minting US Coins: Pennies, nickels cost more than their face value

Pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value! How much more? (Includes a follow-up task about calculating how much it costs to make a dollar's worth of each coin) Click to access the slide deck, and learn more about math & content connections.

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Cost of Tuition at a Public University in Ohio Compared with Potential Minimum Wage Earnings, 1981 – 2020

How does the cost of tuition at a public university in Ohio compare with what a student might earn working a minimum wage job? How has this relationship changed over time? Click to access the slide deck, and learn more about math & content connections.