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Mixed Policy-Budget Graphing Tool Overview

About the Mixed Policy-Budget Trends Graphing Tool

  • Do the number of New York Times stories about crime correlate to the budget for law enforcement activities?
  • Do the number of hearings about education issues affect the budget for education?
  • Is there a relationship between the dramatic increase in the number of hearings after the 1970s to changes in the overall federal budget?

You can answer these questions and more usine our mixed policy-budget trends graphin tool.

This tool charts data for the core datasets (hearings, laws, new york times stories, cq almanac stories) and the budget authority datasets simulataneously, enabling you to compare budgets for different issue areas to government and media activity on those policy issues.

For a sense of which budget functions match which policy topics, see the Policy-Budget Crosswalk.

Ready? Go to the mixed policy-budget trends graphing tool now.

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