So, You're Nostalgic for the 1950s?

Out-of-wedlock birth rate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5pWdKMB4mE (11:05-15:39 see also links under “Out-of-wedlock births”)

Federal Spending Per Capita, adjusted for inflation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usc42LN3w4E

National Debt, Federal Debt Per Capita, adjusted for inflation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUjiuu5-4-A

Individual Transfer Payments (inflation-adjusted dollars & as a % of all federal outlays)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/ (Table 11.1)

Federal Spending; Mandatory Spending as a % of all federal outlays

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/ (Tables 8.2 & 8.6)

Means-tested entitlements as a % of all federal spending

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/ (Table 8.2)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2016/assets/hist_intro.pdf

Labor Force Participation Rate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9Rwi6CNuI (7:49-11:38)

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300061

http://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/LNS11300164Q

The rich didn’t pay those astronomical personal income tax rates of the 1950s

https://fullerfiles.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/debunking-the-liberal-logic-on-taxes-in-the-1950s/

http://beingclassicallyliberal.liberty.me/2014/05/27/no-we-never-had-over-70-tax-rates-on-the-rich/

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/98xx/doc9884/12-23-effectivetaxrates_letter.pdf

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42111.pdf

http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Individual-Statistical-Tables-by-Tax-Rate-and-Income-Percentile#_grp1

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/51-86inintxshatr.pdf

Homeownership rate data/HUD Spending

http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/histtabs.html

http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/histtab14.xls

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USHOWN/

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/owner.html

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/charts/

Federal Receipts by source, % of

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/ (Table 2.2)

Federal Personal Income Tax Rates, Federal Corporate Income Tax Rates & FICA/HI (Social Security & Medicare) Tax Rates

http://taxfoundation.org/article/social-security-and-medicare-tax-rates-calendar-years-1937-2009

http://taxfoundation.org/article/federal-corporate-income-tax-rates-income-years-1909-2012

http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-federal-individual-income-tax-rates-history-1913-2013-nominal-and-inflation-adjusted-brackets

1) Out of wedlock birth rate

2) Federal Debt Per Capita

3) Federal Spending Per Capita

4) Federal Transfer Payments to Individuals

5) Means-Tested Spending

6) So-called Mandatory Spending

7) Labor Force Participation Rates

8) Homeownership Data

9) Sources of Federal Tax Revenue

10) Personal Income Tax Rates (taking a special look at years where those rates were changed)

11) Various Personal Income Tax Data (dispelling certain Progressive myths concerning personal income tax rates of the 1950s)