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Welfare spending is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. [1]
These tables are lists of social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP compiled by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") into the OECD Social Expenditure Database which "includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level." [1]
In addition to government expenditures, private welfare spending, i.e. social insurance programs provided to workers by employers, [10] in the United States is estimated to be about 10% of the U.S. GDP or another $1.6 trillion, according to 2013 OECD estimates. [11]
Over the last 30 years, the nation's debt has skyrocketed from almost $10 trillion in 1994 to over $35 trillion in 2024, according to recent data from the Department of the Treasury. The federal ...
The legislation ended welfare as an entitlement program, tied benefits to employment, capped the time that people could receive welfare over their lifetimes and reduced the federal government's ...
National defense spending is any government spending attributable to the maintenance and strengthening of the United States Armed Forces, including the Army, Navy, Marines, and the Air Force. [14] As of the fiscal year 2019 budget approved by Congress, national defense is the largest discretionary expenditure in the federal budget. [13]
As the co-heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are promising to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.
While federal outlay for welfare was reduced by half since 1996, programs such as food stamps have seen increases in spending. [23] In 2012, 35% of the U.S. population lived in a household that received government benefits, counting only means-tested programs such as food stamps, housing assistance and Medicaid.