Thursday, October 6, 2011

So what does 1% of the budget look like?

In the economist article, it mentioned that the Centre for American Progress advocates for every government to be required to put 1% of its budget into innovation funds. That made me wonder: how much is 1%?

This infographic from the New York Times displays the differences between the Obama Administration's 2010 and 2011 budget.

This billion dollar-o-gram from 2009 shows billions of spending in context:
Here's another one for the UK side:

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