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April 2010

A Simple Image showing the Concentration of Wealth

by Catherine Mulbrandon on April 27, 2010

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From a poster series The World of 100 by Toby Ng looking at statistical information about the world. Found via Brainpickings

If you assume the world is made of 100 people then 6 people have 59% of the world’s net wealth. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any reference to the data source for this image but that sounds about right.

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U.S. Income Tax Brackets: 1910-2010

by Catherine Mulbrandon on April 25, 2010

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This Heat Map of Tax Brackets was created by Stephen Von Worley over at WeatherSealed found via @Brainpicker

The brighter the color the higher the tax rate. Notice that the income plotted on the y-axis is a log scale.

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Visualizing how physical dollar bills travel within the US

by Catherine Mulbrandon on April 21, 2010

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Found via Brainpickings

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Updated April 13, 2010:  I don’t think my original labels were clear so I tried to fix it with new labels and I reorder the graphs.

This is a new infographic illustrating the marginal federal tax rate applied to different salaries. It shows the difference between the combined rate levied on an employee (Income + SSN + Medicare marginal tax rate) and the additional rate levied on the employer, i.e. the payroll tax (SSN + Medicare tax) I am using the same examples that I created in the previous six graphics looking at the average tax rate.

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