Nate Silver Looks At What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending

January 17th, 2013

Nate Silver:

It’s one of the most fundamental political questions of our time: What’s driving the growth in government spending? And it has a relatively straightforward answer: first and foremost, spending on health care through Medicare and Medicaid, and other major social insurance and entitlement programs.

Good look at the composition of government spending over the last century.