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Friday July 3, 2009 
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Federal, State, and Local Government Expenditure Charts
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as share of US economy
< -yr Values in $ billion
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20072008200920102011
Total Spending4,9005,2836,4346,1716,346
Federal Deficit1614591,8411,258929
Gross Public Debt11,33912,46015,49517,24618,638
Health Care8619091,0421,1261,176
Education7998388709721,018
Defense654731823873832
Welfare418483573605603
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There’s much, much more:

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What is the spending data; where is it from?

  • Federal spending data begins in 1792.
  • State and local spending data begins in 1902.
  • Spending data is from official government sources.
    Federal data since 1962 comes from the president’s budget.
    All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau.
  • Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.

The Government Spending Website


 

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usgovernmentspending.com has updated its database with the US Budget Historical Tables for FY 2010 as published May 11, 2009.

May 11, 2009 updates include

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Update: State and Local Spending
Up till now, usgovernmentspending.com and usgovernmentrevenue.com have shown state and local spendin...

State GDP Information
Historical State GDP USgovernmentSpending.com obtains historical State GDP for each of the 50 states...

May 11 Updates: Full US Budget
On May 11, 2009, the US Government Printing Office published the full US budget for FY 2010, includi...

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Christopher Chantrill.

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Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State