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May 16, 2012

planetmoney:

Of each dollar the federal government spends, how much goes to defense? How much goes to Social Security? How much goes to interest on the debt? And how has this sort of thing changed over time?
This graphic answers these questions. It shows the major components of federal spending 50 years ago, 25 years ago, and last year.
Read more here.

Great graphic depicting federal spending over the past 50 years.

Of each dollar the federal government spends, how much goes to defense? How much goes to Social Security? How much goes to interest on the debt? And how has this sort of thing changed over time?

This graphic answers these questions. It shows the major components of federal spending 50 years ago, 25 years ago, and last year.

Read more here.

Great graphic depicting federal spending over the past 50 years.

(via foreignaffairsmagazine)

1:33am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4fEiwLa0stb

(Notes: 424)

May 12, 2012

"In other words, JP Morgan Chase, entirely without any help from the government has lost, in this one set of transactions, five times the amount they claim financial regulation is costing them."

— Barnie Frank piles on. HT Peter Thal Larsen. (via ftalphaville)

I thought this apt commentary.

(via wonklife)

12:59am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4fEiwLK8yh6

(Notes: 99)

May 9, 2012

newyorker:

Amy Davidson on The F.D.R. New Yorker Cover that Never Ran: http://nyr.kr/LhM6n1

Herbert Hoover looks quite glum on this New Yorker cover from the 30’s.

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(Notes: 117)

May 3, 2012

"there is a false nostalgia for primitive agriculture, based on limited transportation and the arduous conversion of raw materials into comestible commodities. Rarely is it admitted, much less emphasized, that cheap, quick food — including its embodiment through our sometimes obnoxious agribusiness corporations — is the single most important advance in human history."

— Writer Tyler Cowen on GMO food and the locavore movement. (via climateadaptation)

For Rachel.

(via emergentfutures)

12:41am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4fEiwKnZANy

(Notes: 44)

April 30, 2012

life:

oldtimeycats:

Nina Leen, Man bending over to touch cat sitting on sidewalk, 1946. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

There’s more where that came from.

Old timey cats for your Monday.

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(Notes: 1,752)

April 29, 2012

think-progress:

todaysdocument:

Equal Pay for Women - Appealing to the Board

President Franklin D. Roosevelt set up the National War Labor Board in January 1942. The Board mediated wartime labor disputes and consisted of representatives from business, organized labor, and the public. Women asked the National War Labor Board that they be paid the same amount as men would be paid for the work they were doing. This special representative’s report sets forth provisions respecting wage rates for women.

Special Representative’s Report on Retroactive Date for Women’s Pay Adjustments, 04/29/1943

Unfortunately, gender pay inequality is a debate we’re still having all these years later.

Even FDR knew women deserved equal pay.

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(Notes: 186)

April 28, 2012