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Is the government up?
http://govuptime.us
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Calculate shutdown cost #23

Open dnprock opened 10 years ago

dnprock commented 10 years ago

What's next for govuptime? I want to find more info on the cost of shutdown. Recently read this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/us/shutdown-to-cost-us-billions-analysts-say-while-eroding-confidence.html

Something like:

800k with average salary of $40,000. 2 weeks of furlough cost $1600/employee. So about $1.28 B in salary lost.

GSMcNamara commented 10 years ago

Yes I was thinking more interesting statistics and data visuals about aspects like cost, lost productivity, etc. Keep the ideas coming!

thatRailsGuy commented 10 years ago

Also feel free to fork the code and submit pull requests.

dnprock commented 10 years ago

I found this data source. Will crunch some numbers tonight.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/2013-budget-proposal-graphic.html?_r=0