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How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck [pic] - http://www.visualeconomics.com/how-the...
How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck [pic]
this doesn't seem terribly accurate. - Joe Silence is not dead
I spend tons of housing, tons of eating out and entertainment. Household? Nada. Tobacco? Nada. - anna sauce
Cool graphic. I can't tell how accurate it is, but it's worth pointing out that most people are not average, and average income is rarely used as a statistic since a large majority of people are below it (typically median income is used). I wonder if the site doesn't have a bit of an agenda (pork spending graphic and the one selling social security privatization), and it seems to be a publicity engine for creditloan.com (which is printed in big letters on almost every graphic but this one, and is at the bottom of every page. - Patrick
If you like this sort of thing, also check out visualizingeconomics.com (more academic, a bit left wing). - Patrick