Newspaper job trends
Some people shared an article today that uses data from a very interesting US Bureau of Labor Statistics dataset showing publishing job trends.
The data shows how information technology had a very important impact on traditional publishing jobs, particularly in the newspaper industry, during the last 25 years.
US Wealth Redistribution through taxes
On his campaign website, in the Income Inequality section, Bernie Sanders describes how Wall Street and the billionaire class have rigged the rules to redistribute wealth and income to the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country.
The White House publishes different [data tables](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/) related to collected taxes, and one of them shows the share paid by individuals and corporations as a percentage of GDP over time.
Plotting this data as a time series shows that the Vermont senator clearly has a point.
10 Most Populous Countries
| 1 | China | 1376790000 |
| 2 | India | 1289590000 |
| 3 | United States | 323661000 |
| 4 | Indonesia | 257900000 |
| 5 | Brazil | 206140000 |
| 6 | Pakistan | 193273000 |
| 7 | Nigeria | 187200000 |
| 8 | Bangladesh | 160479000 |
| 9 | Russia | 141800000 |
| 10 | Japan | 126700000 |
The 10 most populous countries in the world. Almost 60% of the world population lives there.
