What Was Actually in Bowles-Simpson — And How Can We Compare it With Other Plans?
4.1% – A Recovery from Great Recession Bypassing American Households
Ratio of covered workers to Social Security beneficiaries
SOURCE: 2012 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, Table IV.B2.
Infographic: Annual Deaths Attributable to Cigarette Smoking—United States, 2000–2004
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CDC
How people get local news and information in different communities
A Record One-in-Five Households Now Owe Student Loan Debt
Food inflation rises
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OECD
Food prices have increased over the year to January 2011 in many of the world’s economies. Moreover, those increases, which accelerated from mid-2010, reversed the downward trend in food prices of 2009 and the first half of 2010.
Rates of Not Getting Needed Care Because of Cost
Commonwealth Fund
Figure 1: Proportion of population being at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 2010
Eurostat
Growing Partisan Divide over Social Safety Net
Reality Check on Who Pays Taxes
CBPP
The fact that most people who don’t owe federal income tax in a given year do pay substantial amounts of other taxes — and also are net income taxpayers over time — belies the claim that households that do not owe income tax in a given year will form bad policy judgments because they “don’t have any skin in the game.”
How is life?
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OECD
Almost Half of U.S. Hispanic Population Lives in 10 Metropolitan Areas
Who pays if you’re sick?
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OECD
2006 Cartoon Controversy
Majority in India Not Satisfied with Country’s Direction
OECD: Your Better Life Index: Some initial trends
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OECD
Big Partisan Divide in Views of Economic News
A Troubling Trend in Life Expectancy
Health Affairs | NY Times
A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes
Majority Says Rich Pay Too Little in Federal Taxes
Most Egyptians Have an Unfavorable View of the U.S.
Food security: US
Tupu Ola Moui: Pacific Health
Source: Statistics New Zealand and Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs 2010a
Number of Recipients, 1974–2011: Persons receiving federally administered SSI payments, December
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record (Characteristic Record Extract format), 100 percent data.
Incidence rate and number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses, by private industry sector, 2008
BLS
Fewer People Were Uninsured in 2011
Commonwealth Fund
Two Thirds of Democrats Now Support Gay Marriage
Medicare Voucher Plan Remains Unpopular
Rate of fatal occupational injuries, by industry sector, US 2008
BLS
The Economy Has Been Growing, Since Mid-2009
CBPP
Economic activity as measured by real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) was contracting sharply when policymakers enacted the financial stabilization bill (TARP) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The economy has been growing for 12 straight quarters, but the pace of recovery has been modest.
Medicare Beneficiaries’ Utilization of Selected Medical and Long-Term Care Services, 2006
Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the CMS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Cost and Use File, 2006.
Size of Income, 1962 and 2010: Median income of aged units, by marital status (in 2010 dollars)
SOURCES: Data for 1962 are from Social Security Administration, The Aged Population of the United States: The 1963 Social Security Survey of the Aged (1967). Data for 2010 are Social Security Administration calculations from the March 2011 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey.
Daily Number: 85% – Most in the Middle Class Says It’s Gotten Harder to Maintain Their Lifestyle
Health Insurance Coverage of the Nonelderly, 2010
KFF | KCMU/Urban Institute analysis of 2011 ASEC Supplement to the CPS
U.S. Performs Worst on Potentially Preventable Death Rates Compared to France, Germany, and the U.K.; U.S. Also Improving at Slowest Pace
64% – Majority of Public Agrees Labor Unions Needed
Short, Temporary Detentions Make Commitment More Likely
Psychiatric News
Few Americans Have a Favorable Opinion of the Federal Government
Asian-Americans More Satisfied than General Public with Country’s Direction
The Complicated Politics of Abortion
Hispanic Student Enrollments Reach New Highs in 2011
Up to 1.7 Million Unauthorized Immigrant Youth May Benefit from New Deportation Rules
Houston Tops the List of Major Metro Areas in Economic Segregation by Income
Share of British Children in Relative Poverty, 1961 to 1997–1998
Russell Sage Foundation
Government Social Welfare Expenditure As a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product in OECD Countries, 1960, 1975, and 1990
Russell Sage Foundation
U.S. Adults Depression by State 2006 & 2008
CDC
National Minimum Wage Rates in Britain and the United States, 1999 to 2009
Russell Sage Foundation
Traumatic Brain Injury in the US
CDC