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The GDP report in 6 charts
The headline figures from today’s GDP report for the second quarter of 2012 aren’t great: Annualized first quarter growth was revised up to 2.0 percent from 1.9, and second quarter growth was 1.5...
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The effect of veep picks, in two charts
Nate Silver has a great post mapping out how each potential vice presidential pick affects Mitt Romney’s chances of winning the electoral college. That had me wondering: have VP picks actually affected...
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Defense spending in the U.S., in four charts
How much has U.S. defense spending grown? In some ways, it’s a simple question. The Office of Management and Budget keeps very good data on past defense expenditures, and in inflation-adjusted terms,...
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The jobs report in five – nay, six! – charts
This morning’s jobs report was awful. Unemployment went down from 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent, but nonfarm payrolls only increased by a dismal 96,000, with another 40,000 jobs lost in revisions of...
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How the government fights poverty, in one chart
The official poverty measure has a lot of problems, and we’ll have to wait until November for the better alternative measure from the census. For one thing, the official measure totally ignores the big...
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The jobs report in six charts
January’s jobs report was a mixed bag. A gain of 157,000 jobs is a decent figure, while unemployment ticked up to 7.9 percent. But the November and December figures were substantially revised,...
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George W. Bush’s presidency, in 24 charts
Good news for George W. Bush! His approval rating is the highest it’s been in years, just as he’s set to open his presidential library at Southern Methodist University. Forty-seven percent of Americans...
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The Senate has a student loan deal. Here’s what you need to know.
The Senate appears to have reached a deal to avoid hiking interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans, which make up about a quarter of all student loans the federal government issues each year. The...
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