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Of these, the most statistically significant differences are in real GDP growth, unemployment rate change, stock market annual return, and job creation rate. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The reasons for these differences are a matter of debate, as it is often difficult to determine the precise causes for a given element of the economy performing better or worse ...
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by economic growth rate.This article includes a list of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories sorted by economic growth — the percentage change in real GDP for the third quarter of 2023 is listed (for the 50 states and District of Columbia), using the most recent data available from the U.S. Bureau of ...
As of 2015, 44 percent of children in the United States live with low-income families. [270] In 2016, 12.7% of the U.S. population lived in poverty, down from 13.5% in 2015. The poverty rate rose from 12.5% in 2007 before the Great Recession to a 15.1% peak in 2010, before falling back to just above the 2007 level.
(see "Federal Tax Rate by Income Group" chart) For those with incomes in the top 0.01 percent, overall rates of Federal tax fell from 74.6% in 1970, to 34.7% in 2004 (the reversal of the trend in 2000 with a rise to 40.8% came after the 1993 Clinton deficit reduction tax bill), the next 0.09 percent falling from 59.1% to 34.1%, before leveling ...
The top quintile in personal income in 2022 was $117,162 [2] (included in the chart below). The differences between household and personal income are considerable, since 61% of households now have two or more income earners. [3]
This is a list of U.S. states, territories, and Washington, D.C. by income.Data is given according to the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates, except for the American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for which the data comes from 2010, as ACS does not operate in these areas.
After the Federal Reserve slashed rates to effectively zero to support the economy during the pandemic, mortgage rates hit an all-time average low of 2.65% in January 2021.
In 1970, the United States government spent just over $80 billion on national defense. Over the next two decades, national defense spending increased steadily to around $300 billion per year. [11] Military spending fell in the 1990s, but increased markedly in the 2000s as a result of the War in Afghanistan and Iraq.