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Posts tagged: charts
The statistics on student loan debt are really, really bad.
But they’re nowhere near as bad as this widely circulated (guilty!) chart makes it out to be:
Fact-check your charts, people.
This BBC News interactive is pretty mind-boggling.
Example: Jim Lehrer was the 2,156,395,664th person alive on Earth and 74,298,587,966th person to have lived since history began.
On Monday, a baby will be born somewhere and demographers will proclaim that the world’s population has reached 7 billion. Read more here.
You don’t need to be an economist to see why Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, which includes a national sales tax on food, is incredibly regressive. All you really have to do is take a gander at this chart.
If the median household income had kept pace with the economy since 1970, it would now be nearly $92,000—not $50,000. Sort of a big difference, no?
