Analysis: Nonprofits have passed local government to become the second-largest source of employment in the country, behind the for-profit sector.
Leslie Wolken wrote from Colorado Springs — the 1.2-mile-high city — to ask how the nonprofit sector has changed in America. She also wanted to know which parts of the United States have the most nonprofit jobs.We here at the Department of Data are dedicated to exploring the weird and wondrous power of the data that defines our world.Fascinating questions, Leslie! And they’re timely. Because it turns out that nonprofits have never been a bigger part of the U.S.
At the bottom of the rankings are Texas, that bastion of privatization, self-reliant Nevada and the storm-battered territory of Puerto Rico. The South’s lack of nonprofits largely reflects a lack of nonprofit medicine. Other types of nonprofits tend to be more equitably distributed. As readers Tim Carter in Seattle and Joe Bogucki in Newnan, Ga., pointed out when we looked into
But the biggest gaps are racial. Among the 70-plus crowd, Whites are about twice as likely to have hearing aids as everybody else, and nearly four times as likely as Black Americans — 18 percent versus 5 percent.But is it that Whites are more likely to lose their hearing, or just that they’re more likely to correct that loss? Both, actually!
“Your brain and body just adapts or adjusts,” Connors told us. “The person who has the hearing loss doesn’t realize it at first.” It often takes the outside perspective of a spouse or child to point out they’re missing anything at all.
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