By Ben Shabad, full-time graduate student and part-time cartoon-drawing person.
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Here’s how common each household type is and was — and how the makeup compares to a few decades ago.
The wind was blowing smoke and ash from wildfires further up north from where I live. The sky turned an eerie orange. I wondered about past fires and made the chart below.
There are a lot of variables to consider, but for people of middle income, here’s a suggestion, based on when you start saving and when you want to retire.
On June 25, 2007 I published the first FlowingData post. …