California Stimulus: Interactive Mapping of Spend

Taken from the California Economic Recovery Portal, a brilliant interactive display of stimulus spend throughout the state of California. My image collage highlights Orange County.

Full Credits to Stamen.com and Flowing Data for bringing this to "life & attention". MapTiles by CloudMade and data CC by SA OpenStreetMap.org

Another $800 Billion visual perspective

As I continued to research, I came across another more detailed visual portrayal of the economic stimulus plan.

Again credits to FlowingData and the Washington Post

This one has a better temporal dynamic on the axis showing the impact over time from fiscal year 2009 thru 2019.

In particular, the large numbers from Medicaid provisions, state fiscal stabilization and health insurance for the unemployed are now "top of mind" political topics in their own right.

The Obama Stimulus Plan - A Visual Refresher

As funny as it sounds in today's economic times, I need a refresher on where the $800 billion stimulus plan went .... So I dug up some visual displays of Obama's economic plan.

This particular collage comes from InfoGraphics - as first seen on FlowingData

You would think after only six months of spending this type of cash each 100 million would be etched into our brains, but alas .... even nearly a trillion is but a fleeting memory.

I was mostly interested in reviewing the ratio of tax cuts to aid to local/state governments given the State of California's recent budget debacle.

As always, the visual provides some clarity (at least as to the categories of spend) on how to interpret the data.