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+4.0%: Expansion resumed following a return to growth in May 1954. Employment and GDP growth slowed relative to the previous two expansions. April 1958– April 1960 24 +3.6% +5.6%: A brief, two-year period of expansion occurred between 1958 and 1960, followed by another monetary recession in 1960. Feb 1961– Dec 1969 106 +3.3% +4.9%
For example, tax revenues declined from $2.5 trillion in 2008 to $2.1 trillion in 2009, and remained at that level in 2010. From 2008 to 2009, individual income taxes declined 20%, while corporate taxes declined 50%. At 14.6% of GDP, the 2009 and 2010 collections were the lowest level of the past 50 years. [18]
The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2019 ran from October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019. Five appropriation bills were passed in September 2018, the first time five bills had been enacted on time in 22 years, with the rest of the government being funded through a series of three continuing resolutions.
In dollar terms, federal spending was actually higher in 2009 than in 2014, despite a historical trend of a roughly 5% annual increase. This reduced real GDP growth by approximately 0.5% per quarter on average between Q3 2010 and Q2 2014. [89] Both households and government practicing austerity at the same time was a recipe for a slow recovery. [2]
Real GDP per capita (measured in 2009 dollars) was $52,444 in 2017 and has been growing each year since 2010. It grew 3.0% per year on average in the 1960s, 2.1% in the 1970s, 2.4% in the 1980s, 2.2% in the 1990s, 0.7% in the 2000s, and 0.9% from 2010 to 2017. [141]
The impact to employment would be an increase of 0.8 million to 2.3 million by last-2009, an increase of 1.2 million to 3.6 million by late 2010, an increase of 0.6 million to 1.9 million by late 2011, and declining increases in subsequent years as the U.S. labor market reaches nearly full employment, but never negative. [32]
The fixed rate for a 15-year mortgage is 6.0%, up 8 basis points from last week's average 5.92%. These figures are lower than a year ago, when rates averaged 6.61% for a 30-year term and 5.93% for ...
The United States Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2010, titled A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise, [6] is a spending request by President Barack Obama to fund government operations for October 2009–September 2010.