Justin Fox, Columnist

Checking on Five Charts to See How They Turned Out

Sometimes, things become a little clearer with the help of a graph.

December 28, 2016 at 4:48 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

This should make it obvious.
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I make lots of charts, mainly because they're such a good way of conveying and understanding information.1482872497284 But that information can change after the charts are published. So here are five charts from 2016 that seemed like they might benefit from an update:

Kansas is still lagging behind Nebraska. In March I compared the economic performance of Nebraska and Kansas, where Governor Sam Brownback and the Republican majority in the state legislature have been engaged in a grand experiment in tax- and budget-cutting since Brownback took office in January 2011. As I wrote at the time:

What I found then was that Nebraska had experienced significantly stronger employment growth since 2011 than Kansas had. When I updated the numbers this week, the gap had only grown: