Health and Human Services - 921.61B USD, important and interesting.
US Budget Visualization Using d3
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#32Failed to load resource http://solomonkahn.com/us_budget/public/facebox.js
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'settings' of undefined
Chrome/Linux
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#33Failed to load resource http://solomonkahn.com/us_budget/public/facebox.js Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'settings' of undefined Chrome/Linux
are you on the latest version of chrome?
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#34It's pretty shocking how much more expensive Federal unemployment benefits have been for this most recent recession, assuming that's what's responsible for the massive spike in the Department of Labor's budget. Compare with the 2001-2002 tech bust, for example.
if you double click on the department of labor, you can see what makes up the spike!
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#35Why does it resort and regrow all the blocks when you switch between years or other settings? If the same blocks simply grew or shrunk, it would be a lot easier to follow the difference. Actually, it sometimes simply converts blocks into others - switching between 2012 and 2013, the "Justice" block morphs into the "National Infrastructure Bank" block. Very confusing.
maybe a Google Motion Chart like the Hans Rosling charts would be an interesting visualization to solve for that effect.
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery...
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#37Health and Human Services - 921.61B USD, important and interesting.
HHS spending is almost entirely spending for Medicare and Medicaid Services (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Hea...)
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#38Health and Human Services - 921.61B USD, important and interesting.
HHS spending is almost entirely spending for Medicare and Medicaid Services (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Hea... )
you can use the visualization to see exactly what makes up the health and human services budget item, by double clicking on it. Then you can also see the individual programs that make up medicare and medicaid.
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#39So basically since 1976, the US is only on the positive side of the budget for 4 years (1998-2001). For all other (34) years, there has been a deficit. Yicks. If the US was a person, that person would be considered a financial disaster.
Lucky for us then, that the US is not a person.
Unlucky for us, it's even harder to determine a healthy budget than looking at income vs. outlays. E.g. if the money supply grows faster than the national debt then even a small but constant deficit may still be an entirely healthy thing.
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#40Does this include discretionary spending? I feel like that's pretty essential to understanding exactly what's going on... Mil-spending would look a lot more massive, I believe.
Basically everything beyond Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid is discretionary spending. If you get rid of those, then yes, military spending looks huge as a share of discretionary spending. There are dozens of sites breaking down the spending (this is just another attempt at visualizing the data). A quick search led me to http://nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-1... where you can find discreti…
Well, if you mean [some people] get together and figure out what to do spend money on and call it "the budget." Yes, I guess so.
But I mean, my understanding is that there is un-allotted money the government is willing to spend, beyond whatever budget they approve. My understanding was that, in particular, the military budget increases dramatically under these mechanisms.
Also - Social Security should also be separate, really, it's a trust fund with a very specific money - if we turned Social Security off tomorrow, it isn't like the money collected could go elsewhere. Money collected into that fund & being spent into that fund should not be able to be reallocated elsewhere.