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How we've spent our money over the last century

Posted 1:15PM 01/05/10 Personal Finance
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Our friends at VisualEconomics.com produced this chart from U.S. Department of Labor statistics showing how Americans changed the way they've spent their paychecks over the past 100 years. I was particularly taken by the relatively small increase in the percentage of our overall expenditures that go to health care.

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