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A member of my spanish class shared this graphic in class and I thought it was a great visual of the current condition. By It can be difficult to fully comprehend the scope of the refugee crisis flaring up across Europe based on the numbers alone. That's where Lucify comes in. The Finnish data visualization site took the U.N.'s monthly count of asylum-seekers from 2012 through 2015 and used the numbers to create an amazing animated graphic.

Wow! That is astounding!

Super interesting article; ties in to the week's big themes; I highly recommend a read.

I found it very interesting that the poorest in a given year, are not necessarily the poorest for their entire lives. As well as the point that income is distributed over one's lifetime, versus given in one particular moment--> which helps redistribute wealth, instead of letting it go stagnant.

Super interesting how little effect cutting or expanding government benefits has on long term poverty.

New York Times analysis of demographic, economic and asylum data for each country. Note: Britain, Denmark and Ireland are exempt from the new relocation plan. The plan is not comprehensive: Five times as many migrants have already arrived in Greece this year as the 50,400 who would be relocated to other countries by the plan. Interesting to see a visual on the distribution of migrants thus far and how it compares to that country's policy.

This is a little random, but I stumbled upon this interesting infographic. Fun Fact: China exports to the US are valued $337.8 billion (roughly 15% of our total imports)

Highlights the fact that we would be in BIG trouble if our relationship with China went downhill- which may be a reason that we haven't gotten too involved with their government, even with all its problems.

For our unit on international trade and competition for resources: China, US, Japan, ???

Provides visual representation of the parasites and diseases caused by insufficient clean water sources and poor sanitation in Sierra Leone

Maps clearly and simply illustrate the progress ISIS is making in Syria and Iraq over time, labeled as "ISIS sanctuaries". This way you can have a visual representation of ISIS's power because the land they control often is oil-rich, so with it come people and capital.

The title says it all: this document describes the nature of the US's pension problem. This document defines many important terms, visualizes many important statistics, and highlights key areas that must be improved upon and the magnitude of improvements necessary. A good (terrifying) quote, "Why must the system increase net receipts by $13.6 trillion if it is already requiring current and future workers to pay in more than they will receive? The answer relates to the system's generosity to early birth cohorts-generations of workers now either retired or deceased. Social Security paid these previous cohorts benefits that exceeded their lifetime contributions by more than $13.6 trillion. In order to finance this gap, later birth cohorts must receive benefits whose value (relative to the value of the taxes they pay in) is lower by the same amount-that is, they must pay a net tax (again, the difference between the present value of taxes and benefits) of more than $13.6 trillion. Under current law, a portion of this net tax is being levied already; in order to make the system solvent, the net tax needs to be increased by an additional $13.6 trillion." Another good quote: "There is no escaping the budget arithmetic."

Follow up on the Syrian refugee crisis. I know we have sort of stopped talking about this in class because of individual projects but I think we should still stay in the loop. The Syrian conflict has been pushing citizens out of their homes since 2011, but the internal turmoil caused by shifting borders between different factions since March 2014 has been particularly tumultuous. The UN undersecretary estimated in August 2015 that 250,000 civilian deaths have been caused by the conflict. Today world leaders are meeting to discuss the power of Assad and it's going to be interesting to see the results/conclusion they draw.

Just to expand on what Scott said, I found this graphic that, as a visual learner, really helped me understand what's going on right now.

NASA

The visual accompanying this article was very useful! I found it helpful to compare the American political parties to European political parties. I always knew that American politics were very right-leaning, but I had no idea of the extent.

This article is a photo essay depicting the dichotomy between socioeconomic classes in Haiti.

the photos are striking, especially when they're placed next to each other. But what easy to forget is that we could make a similar photo essay here in the United States.