The Scoop

Clifton Brown and Aron Pilhofer of the New York Times used data on penalties from the National Football League to show that “the number of penalties in the National Football League has increased each of the past four seasons, with the sharpest increase coming in offensive holding and false starts.” Officials threw an average of [...]

The South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo used data on marriages to show that “women that have given birth but do not raise their children remarry or date men with an average annual salary of 70,630,000 won. But with one son the average drops to 57,400,000 won. With one daughter the average rate was 62,690,000 won.” [...]

Lynette Clemetson and Ron Nixon of the New York Times used federal records and data maintained by Cornell University to show that “in 2004, 26 percent of black children adopted from foster care, about 4,200, were adopted transracially, nearly all by whites. That is up from roughly 14 percent, or 2,200, in 1998.” A graphic [...]

Jamie Smith Hopkins of the Baltimore Sun used housing and economic data to show that “local jurisdictions have increasingly reined in new residential construction, even as businesses created jobs faster in the region than they did nationwide.” As a result, there won’t be enough homes for new workers, if current projections hold up. “Baltimore and [...]

Justin A. Cohn of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette used attendance figures from local sports teams to find that the numbers “are a loosely based gauge of how many tickets are distributed, not how many people pass through the gates and not necessarily how many tickets were purchased. Whether those tickets were used is inconsequential [...]