By Matthew Yglesias, Money Box @ slate.com, March 28, 2012
A great Census Bureau infographic summarizes some information on how America has changed since the 1940 Census. I liked this picture (atop his blog entry) of the shrinking workforce. I think a lot of people don't recognize how prominent agricultural labor still was in the 1930s. On the one hand, this drives home the fact that the initial exclusion of agricultural workers from Social Security was a really major compromise.