{"id":4963,"date":"2009-06-23T05:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T10:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2009-06-23T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T15:50:21","slug":"visualizing-state-deficits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4963","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing State Deficits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0a unique <a href=\"http:\/\/manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com\/manyeyes\/visualizations\/state-budget-deficits-2010-estimates\">unique visualization of the 46 states (plus the DC)<\/a>\u00a0that are running budget deficits this year.<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s is not only disproportionally huge, but works out to around $1.000 per capita.\u00a0 Minnesota&#8217;s is a little lighter &#8211; about $600 per person (before the Governor&#8217;s unallotment, not included in the graphic, takes hold).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The four states missing from the graph?\u00a0 The low-tax, low-&#8220;service&#8221; states run by conservatives (whose education systems generally keep pace with Minnesota&#8217;s vaunted system, and clobber the bejeebers out of California, New York, New Jersey\u00a0and Massachussetts&#8217;): North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Alaska; South Dakota&#8217;s deficit comes to around $60 per South Dakotan, so it&#8217;s close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0a unique unique visualization of the 46 states (plus the DC)\u00a0that are running budget deficits this year. California&#8217;s is not only disproportionally huge, but works out to around $1.000 per capita.\u00a0 Minnesota&#8217;s is a little lighter &#8211; about $600 per person (before the Governor&#8217;s unallotment, not included in the graphic, takes hold).\u00a0 The four states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}