Understanding Book

Essays
UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING-RSW
UNDERSTANDING ISSUES- Horace Deets
UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS-Nigel Holmes
UNDERSTANDING POLLS-Andrew Kohut

Nigel Holmes (Design) Meredith Ragby(Data)
Federal Income
Federal Payments
Federal Debt
Social Security
Medicare
Welfare
Economic Indicators
State & Local Income
State & Local Payments
State & Local Debt

Don Moyer / Reed Agnew, Agnew Moyer Smith
Who lives here?
Where is everybody?
Who's got the money?
Life & Death
Who makes the rules?
How does our electoral system work?
How do you get elected?
How do lobbyists work?

Michael Bierut, Pentagram Designs, New York
Health Care Costs
Cancer
Medicare Genetic Engineering
Health Insurance
AIDS
Alternative Medicine
Mental Health
Disease & Illness
Physical Fitness
Disabilities
Business of Health Care

Bob Greenberg, R/GA Digital Studios
Substance Abuse
Criminal Justice / Law Enforcement
Guns
Death Penalty
Gambling
Accidents
Violence / Hate Crimes
Privacy
Crime

Nancye Green /Michael Donovan, Donovan & Green
How is work changing?
Where are the jobs going?
How is time spent?
Who gets hurt?
What is the "E"?
Can it be controlled?
Who is joining?
How free is it?
How much is enough?
What is it worth?

Kit Hinrichs, Pentagram Designs, San Francisco
Terrorism
Nuclear Arms
Bio-Chemical Weapon
War
Hunger/Starvation
Civil/Human Rights
National Defense
Armaments
America's Global Role

Krzysztof Leak/Paul Kahn, Dynamic Diagrams
Business
Bankruptcy
Wages & Earnings
Global Capitalism
Foreign Trade
Mergers & Acquisitions
Immigration
Global Institutions

Clement Mok, Studio Archetype
Education K-12
Literacy
Economics of Raising Children
Abuse of Women & Children
Technology in the Classroom
Higher Education
Continuing Education
Suicide
Affirmative Action
Children at Risk

Ramona Rao, Inxight Software
Global Warming / Climate Change
Natural Disasters
Water Resources
Biodiversity / Extinction
Atmosphere / Air Pollution
Fossil / Nuclear /Alternative Energy
Food
Agriculture
Garbage / Waste / Recycling
Deforestification / Desertification
Consumption Patterns

Joel Katz
Cost of Living
Spending & Saving
Personal Finance
Retirement
Social Security
Financial Institutions
Poverty
Housing & Homelessness
Charity & Philanthropy
Not-forProfits

Hani Rashid / Lise Anne Couture, Asymptote Architecture
Stock Market
Transportation
Space Program
Cities / Urban Sprawl
Race
Families
Marriage & Divorce
Sex & Sexuality

Tom Wood (Design) Pew Research Center (Data)
The Pew Millennium Survey

Nigel Holmes
Who owns the media?
Newspapers
Magazines
TV & Cable
Radio The Internet

Tibor Kalman(Posthumously)
Highlights from Benetton's Colors
Here's where the money lives
Here's where the people live
A trillion dollars
Hunger
Energy