Federal spending, taxes, and the annual budget deficit are all lower now than when President Obama first took office. Facts! (via ThinkProgress)
The rise of the filibuster in one graph
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Chart of the day slash last three and a half years.
Chart of the day.
What’s better than a chart showing how President Obama’s reduced our dependence on foreign oil? How about three of them?
We’ve updated our jobs chart again with the good news out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning: the economy added 257,000 private-sector jobs in January, making it the 23rd month of growth in a row.
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Since President Obama took office, our oil imports have fallen by an average of 1.1 million barrels a day. Hashtag: progress.
We’ve updated our jobs chart with the good news out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning—200,000 jobs added to the economy this month, for 22 straight months of job growth.
