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The Ideas America Sells To The World
May 10, 2012 U.S. exports aren't limited to stuff. We also sell billions of dollars worth of ideas to people around the world.
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What American Women Do For Work
May 3, 2012 Forty years ago, only 1 in 3 American workers was a woman. Today, it's 1 in 2. What jobs did all those women get? And how did gender breakdowns change by industry?
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What America Owes In Student Loans
April 23, 2012 Total student debt has gone through the roof. But the average debt per college grad has gone up much more slowly.
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What America Pays In Taxes
April 13, 2012 How much did people in your income bracket pay in taxes? And what was the government's total tax take, from all sources?
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How Do Ordinary Americans Spend Their Money?
April 5, 2012 See two graphs that show how we spend our money today, and how our spending patterns have changed since 1949.
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What America Does For Work
March 21, 2012 What do Americans do for a living? How has the picture changed over the past several decades? Here's the answer, in two graphs.
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U.S. Exports, 2011
March 14, 2012 Last year, U.S. exports were worth $2.1 trillion. Which raises a simple question: $2.1 trillion worth of what?