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Stanford Kay is an award-winning information graphic designer and artist. Formerly on staff at Newsweek, his work has also appeared in Business Week, ...
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Washington dumped torrents of stimulus dollars across the American landscape to keep the U.S. economy from dying on the vine, but most of the spending won’t bear fruit until 2015.
For the next financial crisis, what would be the best way to spend stimulus dollars? While some economists suggest a national fire sale and some pharmacists heaping helpings of hormones, an examination of how the current stimulus-dollar cascade has helped or hindered the recovery bears examination.
That’s what graphic artist Stanford Kay has done with buckets of data drawn from the Congressional Budget Office’s scintillating bestseller from last September, “The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices,” plus the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Commerce.
CLICK FOR PDF VERSIONThis graphic illustrated by artist Stanford Kay shows how the stimulus program pumped money into the economy, and it compares to the Bush tax cuts to Obama's stimulus spending and tax cuts.
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