Saturday, June 9, 2012

(nothing) Better than Ezra

from Ezra Klein:  what makes us healthy vs what we spend on healthcare
-quick read--pictures included!

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(from Ezra Klein Twitter)

-not quite as damning or shameful, but at least takes away conservative talking points; actually their MO is to deny the existence of any problem in the first place.
If you control for everything you can think to control for, women earn 91 cents for every dollar men earn:

-some don't count public sector jobs (John Boehner comes to mind), even though these folks pay taxes and buy things, which normally would be seen as stimulative.
The public sector isn't fine, in one graph:
If public sector hadn't lost any jobs since Feb 09, unemployment would be 7.8%.
If public sector jobs had grown at the same rate they did under Bush, unemployment would be 7.3 percent.
And public sector unemployment is a problem that politicians can actually solve.

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