08, August sites

•  A History Of US Defense Spending Since FDR; And Where Obama And Romney Differ
• US Federal Budget Visualized - Your Tax Dollars at Work
• World governments have borrowed massive amounts of money to live beyond their means. Here are the world's largest economies, and how much they borrowed
• The Veil of Opulence (vs. “veil of ignorance.”) By BENJAMIN HALE
• Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Year: Trends in American Values: 1987-2012
• Find out where you fit on the partisan political spectrum:  12 questions that were part of a national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center
• Who Counts as Middle Class? Americans don’t have a great sense of where they fall in the income distribution, or even what the income distribution actually looks like. (Economix, NYT)

•  The Lost Decade of the Middle Class Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier {Note: the middle tier is defined as those living in households with an annual incom that is 67% to 200% of the national median}  (Pew Research Center)

• Income distribution by percentile 2011 (The Tax Policy Center is a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. The Center is made up of nationally recognized experts in tax, budget, and social policy who have served at the highest levels of government.)

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• Open Source Democracy, OSD // A Movement to Develop // A Web Site, A Cloud Computing Service // For Government Change Actions and for American Voters 
  

• How To Enable 2-Factor Verification On Gmail (And Avoid Getting Hacked)

• Admitting to Bias: Survey finds social psychologists admit anti conservative bias
• Kleinbard: Tax Fairness and Fairness in Tax Data Reporting // Posted by Dan Crawford (Rdan)
• Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays Taxes (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
  
• The Challenge of Stabilizing Federal Debt Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum (1 hr Video)
• Something Doesn't Add Up // Too much medicine relies on fatally flawed research.
  
• Khan Academy
• NYT Open Courses
  
• Optimize Your Wi-Fi Network with Mac’s Hidden Diagnostic Tool
• WorkFlowy as a website that makes lists (Slate discussion)
• A Progressive Prescription For Cutting Health Care Costs (pdf)