US Consumer Spending Visualized

A great visualization of how the American consumer spends their money.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/11/visualization-of-us.html



"Here's a nice dataviz of US consumer spending as of April 2009. How depressing is that minuscule slice labelled "reading"?

How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck

(via Sociological Images)"