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Find Out Where Your Money Goes When You Buy Gas

Want to know where your fifties go when you fill up your car with gas? GOOD's latest chart breaks down the assorted costs, and compares them with other places around the globe. You can grab a free printed copy at any Starbucks, or go here to check it out in bright RGB goodness. More »

5:01 PM on Tue Oct 7 2008
By Chris Walters
15,527 views, 35 comments

Latest by Avrus: Of course there's no profit in gas. How can you have profit in gas when there's a 43 - more »

charts

Who Owns All The Organic Companies?

Who really owns some of the biggest organic brands in the country? GOOD magazine made one of their sexy graphs to show you. For instance, Coke owns Odwalla, Pepsi owns Naked, and Kraft owns Boca Burgers. The chart also shows you that these parent companies are among the top 30 food processing companies. Not like we're talking a giant scandal or anything, it's just interesting to know more about where your food is really coming from. Just because it's organic doesn't mean it was made on a happy communal love-farm .

1:43 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Ben Popken
7,973 views, 57 comments

Latest by Thorkel: What matters is not who owns the "organic" company but whether the owner lets them do the right thing. more »

careers

Estimated Hourly Wages For The Lowest Paying Jobs In The U.S.

The blog Political Calculations took data from the Congressional Budget Office, "which published a study of the lowest-wage workers in the U.S. from 1979 through 2005," and looked at the occupations of the bottom 20% of earners in the U.S. Then it took a chart of the 10 full-time jobs with the lowest annual earnings as compiled by BizJournals.com and estimated the hourly wage based on 40-hour weeks. Conclusion: don't plan on operating a Tilt-a-Whirl and retiring comfortably. More »

9:29 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Chris Walters
14,462 views, 83 comments

Latest by sonyaMc: I've worked as a waitress and bartender near Atlanta for about 11 years. I don't know about the rest more »

rankings

Latest ACSI Survey Is Out: You Really Like Dollar General

The American Customer Satisfaction Index has released its latest scores of retail businesses, so we thought we'd take a look at the department store rankings by constructing a handy graph. When it comes to customer satisfaction, apparently Dollar General is doing something right—and Wal-Mart, as usual, is doing lots of things wrong. More »

11:27 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Chris Walters
6,658 views, 39 comments

Latest by BlazerUnit: @sibertater: That's not true, the part about all DG items ending in an even dollar. They're still a discounter, but more »

charts

Report Card On Personal Finance Education Nationwide


Less than a week ago, Tennessee voted to require a personal finance class of all graduating high school students, starting with this year's seventh graders. Unfortunately, less than 20% of states have similar requirements. We've made a fancy-schmancy graphic to show which states are teaching tomorrow's citizens how to manage money, and which states are likely to be great places to set up payday loan shops. Inside, see the chart nice and big. More »

Feature

2:51 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Chris Walters
2,263 views, 21 comments

Latest by ramit: Personal-finance literacy, as we currently know it, is overrated. I just wrote about this on another comment thread so I hope more »

statistics

American Houses, Blouses Trend Together

This is far from science—and the author of this chart doesn't claim that it is—but you might find it a bit amusing to see this correlation between American's median home size and our rates of obesity. Both are blossoming. More »

10:30 AM on Wed Feb 1 2006
By consumerist.com
165 views, 5 comments

Latest by Davis Freeberg: This is pretty funny. Interestingly enough this is actually science when it comes to fish. By increasing or more »