#usabudget — Public Fediverse posts
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> The #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 #GDP...
https://cepr.net/press-release/new-tool-helps-reporters-put-us-budget-numbers-into-perspective/
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CW: usapol #MilitaryIndustrialComplex BiPartisanPentagon
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 #USABudget