2012 Federal Budget: A Visual

You have to love Facebook because many times friends will post news articles that you might have missed. Everyone is talking about the new 2012 U.S. Government Budget that just came out. The New York Times has created a visual of the budget with different size blocks representing spending with a rollover to show the percentage of change from 2010. It is nifty to play with and gets across the big (or not) spending picture. The Washington Post uses a similar visual forrmat to show spending priorities from Reagan to Obama. Both visuals are interesting on their own but it is the surrounding budget articles that provide a good context for understanding their “rectangles”.