Some salary data from The Chronicle of Higher Education

The data below is 2013 data from The Chronicle of Higher Education (see here).

The power of "tax expenditures"

Timothy Taylor over at the Conversable Economist (see here) has a very informative post on "tax expenditures" ("a provision of the tax code that looks like government spending: that is, it takes tax money that the government would otherwise have collected and directs it toward some social priority" as he describes it).  He shows the following table that makes for interesting reading.

Waiting for healthcare

One of the arguments often made against serious healthcare reform is something like "all those other countries offer more access to care and their costs are lower because they make everyone wait so long."  The graph below from Health Affairs, December 2010, might (??) get some folks to rethink that argument.