So you’re Nostalgic for the 1950s? Part II

Food Stamp enrollment

http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap

http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/SNAPsummary.pdf

US population data

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/pol02marv.pdf (Appendix A)

http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00

http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/nation/popclockest.txt

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

Federal Spending Data

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2017/assets/hist.pdf (Tables 8.2 & 8.8)

Jobs data (I went with this over BLS data because BEA was using an FTE-equivalent basis, I thought that was the best evaluation. BEA & BLS data would’ve been an apples-to-oranges comparison)

http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=9&step=1#reqid=9&step=1&isuri=1