USA Data Desk 11
USA Data Desk covering Immigration & demographics, Labor market & employment data, Politics — campaign finance / FEC filings.
About USA Data Desk 11
USA Data Desk covering Immigration & demographics, Labor market & employment data, Politics — campaign finance / FEC filings. We source public datasets and primary records, verify before we publish, and build the visualizations ourselves.
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Is This the New Normal? What Twenty Years of Box Office Data Says About Where Moviegoing Goes Next
This series set out to answer a simple-sounding question — what does the gap between box office revenue and ticket admissions actually mean — and ended up mapping a single, consistent story across nine separate angles: a shrinking audience, paying substantially more per visit, for a smaller and more concentrated slate of films, increasingly funneled…
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There Are Still 7.4 Million Open Jobs in America. Federal Government Postings Are Rising — Wholesale Trade Is Cutting Them Fast.
June JOLTS data shows 7.4 million job openings nationally, essentially flat — but federal government postings rose 39,000 even as federal hires fell, while wholesale trade cut openings by 74,000, the largest single-industry drop in the report.
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H-1B Registrations Have Collapsed 72% From Their Peak — And a New Rule This Year Explains the Steepest Drop
H-1B registrations peaked at 758,994 in FY2024, inflated by duplicate filings. We traced the fall to roughly 211,600 this year through USCIS’s own data — and found a new wage-weighted lottery, not just fewer applicants, behind the steepest drop yet.