this chart above is my creation made with Claude by the way. you can recreate/ verify it for yourself with this prompt:
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Create an interactive 50-state scatter plot visualizing the "carefare" thesis: home care employment vs. Medicaid budget share, with dots colored by elderly population share.
CHART:
- Title: "Home care employment and Medicaid budget share, by state"
- X-axis: "Aides per 1,000 residents aged 65 " (range 0-180)
- Y-axis: "Medicaid as % of state-funded budget" (range 0-32, percentage format)
- Dashed national-average reference lines at x=65 and y=14.2%, labeled "nat. avg 65 aides" and "nat. avg 14.2%"
- Color dots by % age 65 on a 5-bin blue ramp (lightest <16%, darkest >21%); include a horizontal color-bin legend
- Larger dots (radius 9) and full-name labels for focus states: New York, California, Texas, Florida
- Smaller dots (radius 6) for the rest, with state abbreviation labels for the top/bottom outliers and mid-quadrant carefare cluster; show all states on hover with tooltip "{State}: {x} aides per 1k elderly · {y}% Medicaid share · {age}% age 65 "
- Use Chart.js with chartjs-plugin-datalabels
DATA — please look up all 50 state values yourself from these sources, no estimates:
- X-axis (aides per 1,000 residents aged 65 , 2024): America's Health Rankings, "Home Health Care Workers" indicator, derived from BLS LAUS. URL:
americashealthrankings.org/e…
- Y-axis (Medicaid as % of state-funded budget, SFY 2022): MACPAC MACStats Exhibit 5, derived from NASBO State Expenditure Report. URL:
macpac.gov/wp-content/upload…
- Color (% population age 65 , 2024): America's Health Rankings, "65 Population" indicator, derived from Census Bureau population estimates. URL:
americashealthrankings.org/e…
Verify each value against the source before plotting; flag any state you couldn't source. Cite the three sources in a small footer line beneath the chart. Omit DC.