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Friday, April 13, 2012
Planet Money
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?
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Planet Money
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.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Planet Money
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.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Planet Money
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?