- Ryan’s “Opportunity Grant” Would Likely Force Cuts in Food and Housing Assistance http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryans-opportunity-grant-would-likely-force-cuts-in-food-and-housing-assistance/ 6 comments politics
- Ryan’s Rhetoric Doesn’t Match His Proposal’s Reality http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryans-rhetoric-doesnt-match-his-proposals-reality/ 5 comments politics
- The House voted to wipe out one quarter of the Internal Revenue Service’s enforcement budget. "This cut, which would dramatically worsen the hit that the IRS budget has taken since 2010, will further undermine the IRS’s ability to collect taxes that are owed." http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ 4 comments politics
- Emergency Jobless Benefits Cut-Off Has Hit Nearly 300,000 Veterans http://www.offthechartsblog.org/emergency-jobless-benefits-cut-off-has-hit-nearly-300000-veterans/ 36 comments politics
- The Top 10 (Well, 11) Federal Tax Charts http://www.offthechartsblog.org/the-top-10-well-11-federal-tax-charts/ 3 comments politics
- Ryan Budget Gets 69 Percent of Its Cuts from Low-Income Programs http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-budget-gets-69-percent-of-its-cuts-from-low-income-programs/ 14 comments politics
- SNAP Benefit Cut Has Worsened Hardships for Low-Income Families http://www.offthechartsblog.org/snap-benefit-cut-has-worsened-hardships-for-low-income-families/ 51 comments politics
- More Evidence That You Can’t Lure Entrepreneurs With Tax Cuts - "Cutting state taxes to attract entrepreneurs is likely futile at best and self-defeating at worst, a new survey of founders of some of the country’s fastest-growing companies suggests." http://www.offthechartsblog.org/more-evidence-that-you-cant-lure-entrepreneurs-with-tax-cuts/ 8 comments politics
- Census: SNAP Lifted 4 Million People Out of Poverty in 2012 and Reduced Hardship for Millions More http://www.offthechartsblog.org/census-snap-lifted-4-million-people-out-of-poverty-in-2012-and-reduced-hardship-for-millions-more/ 3 comments politics
- Group dismantles study that argued people on “welfare” are better off than low-income working families http://www.offthechartsblog.org/catos-fundamentally-flawed-analysis/ 7 comments politics
- Don’t Play Politics with the Debt Ceiling http://www.offthechartsblog.org/dont-play-politics-with-the-debt-ceiling/ 12 comments politics
- The "47% don't pay taxes" myth. "When state and local taxes are taken into account along with federal taxes, the poorest fifth of households pays about 15 percent of income in taxes; the next fifth pays about 21 percent." http://www.offthechartsblog.org/the-myth-of-the-non-paying-47-percent/ 3 comments economy
- The Myth of the Out-of-Control Federal Government http://www.offthechartsblog.org/the-myth-of-the-out-of-control-federal-government/ 4 comments politics
- The number of U.S. households living on less than $2 per person per day more than doubled between 1996 and 2011, from 636,000 to 1.46 million. The number of children in extremely poor households also doubled, from 1.4 million to 2.8 million. http://www.offthechartsblog.org/under-2-dollars-a-day-in-america-part-1/ 4 comments politics
- What Happens if Congress Doesn’t Continue Emergency Unemployment Benefits? http://www.offthechartsblog.org/what-happens-if-congress-doesn%E2%80%99t-continue-emergency-unemployment-benefits/#.tzwpkqsfewe.reddit 10 comments politics
- Incredibly simple deficit cure: doing nothing would reduce it by $7 trillion... "simply by letting various temporary tax and spending policies expire on schedule." http://www.offthechartsblog.org/why-doing-nothing-would-reduce-deficits-by-7-1-trillion/ 4 comments economy
- Most States have cut school funding since the crash. A state by state chart... http://www.offthechartsblog.org/new-survey-finds-states-cutting-school-funding/ 4 comments politics
- CBO: Ryan plan saves gov't $600 in spending for the average 65 year-old, but doubles the person's out-of-pocket (from $6,150 to 12,500) and increases healthcare spending in total on the patient by 40%. http://www.offthechartsblog.org/orszag-ryan-budget-would-increase-total-health-care-spending/ 7 comments politics
- Tax cuts, wars account for nearly half of public debt by 2019 http://www.offthechartsblog.org/what%E2%80%99s-driving-projected-debt/ 4 comments politics
- The need for corporate tax reform: corporate taxes at historical lows http://www.offthechartsblog.org/what-should-corporate-tax-reform-look-like/ 4 comments politics
- Social Security Sense and Nonsense - what a real economist says about the future of Social Security in the United States. http://www.offthechartsblog.org/social-security-sense-and-nonsense/ 18 comments economy
- Social Security Sense and Nonsense - what a real economist says about the future of Social Security in the United States. http://www.offthechartsblog.org/social-security-sense-and-nonsense/ 3 comments politics
- If You Tax Them, Will They Flee? -- Data Shows Not True http://www.offthechartsblog.org/if-you-tax-them-will-they-flee/ 6 comments politics