> Are you concerned a proposed farm bill would spend $195 billion on farm subsidies over the next decade? How about $80.35 billion spent on food stamps last year? Would you be more or less concerned if it were $1.95 billion and $8 billion?
> Would you have any idea what these numbers mean?
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#OnlineCalculator is simple. For example, the Washington Post recently reported these budget numbers: the cost of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan was lowered to a proposed $1.7 trillion over eight years, while Senate Republicans countered with an $800 billion proposal...
#DeanBaker pointed out, Biden’s proposal “. . . is a bit less than 0.8 percent of
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https://cepr.net/press-release/new-tool-helps-reporters-put-us-budget-numbers-into-perspective/ #CEPR #BudgetAnalysis #USABudget
New Tool Helps Reporters Put US Budget Numbers Into Perspective
Washington DC — There are a lot of big numbers that go into reporting about the federal budget. The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) can help put those big budget numbers into context with its updated online tool, the “It’s the Budget, Stupid” Federal Budget Calculator. The online calculator is simple. For example, […]
Since Edward Tufte and Solomon Messing (r/ggplot2 data visualization guru-blogger) convinced me that pie-charts are good for business PR and not analytical reasoning: I'd love to redo this chart as a simple line graph. It would be nice to do it with the original data though: get that Reproducible Research technique going...
https://www.warresisters.org/catalog/federal-budget-pie-charts #WRL #WarResistorsLeague #USABudgetFederal Budget Pie Charts
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