In May 2025, 2.8 billion U.S. dollars were paid out in unemployment benefits in the United States. This is a decrease from April 2025, when 3.2 billion U.S. dollars were paid in unemployment benefits. The large figures seen in 2020 are largely due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Welfare in the U.S. Unemployment benefits first started in 1935 during the Great Depression as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Social Security Act of 1935 ensured that Americans would not fall deeper into poverty. The United States was the only developed nation in the world at the time that did not offer any welfare benefits. This program created unemployment benefits, Medicare and Medicaid, and maternal and child welfare. The only major welfare program that the United States currently lacks is a paid maternity leave policy. Currently, the United States only offers 12 unpaid weeks of leave, under certain circumstances. However, the number of people without health insurance in the United States has greatly decreased since 2010. Unemployment benefits Current unemployment benefits in the United States vary from state to state due to unemployment being funded by both the state and the federal government. The average duration of people collecting unemployment benefits in the United States has fluctuated since January 2020, from as little as 4.55 weeks to as many as 50.32 weeks. The unemployment rate varies by ethnicity, gender, and education levels. For example, those aged 16 to 24 have faced the highest unemployment rates since 1990 during the pandemic. In February 2023, the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV metropolitan area had the highest unemployment rate in the United States.

Graph and download economic data for Income Before Taxes: Social Security, Private & Government Retirement by Generation: Birth Year of 1945 or Earlier (CXURETIRINCLB1609M) from 2019 to 2023 about social, retirement, social assistance, birth, tax, government, income, private, and USA.

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This dataset was created by Shachar Cohen

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This dataverse contains the data and replication package for an article on U.S. government overseas procurement spending. You can use the data for any non-commercial purposes, provided you include a complete citation of the article and the dataset: Blankenship, Brian; Joyce, Renanah Miles, 2019, "US Government Overseas Procurement Data", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TSBHIC, Harvard Dataverse, V1.

The statistic shows the share of adults who think the government should regulate how social media companies run political advertising in the United States as of April 2019. According to the survey results, ** percent of U.S. respondents were of the opinion that the government should not regulate how social media companies displayed political advertising.

Facebook received 73,390 user data requests from federal agencies and courts in the United States during the second half of 2023. The social network produced some user data in 88.84 percent of requests from U.S. federal authorities. The United States accounts for the largest share of Facebook user data requests worldwide.

The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) provides federal money to states and territories to provide assistance to low-income families, to obtain quality child care so they can work, attend training, or receive education. Within the broad federal parameters, states and territories set the detailed policies. Those details determine whether a particular family will or will not be eligible for subsidies, how much the family will have to pay for the care, how families apply for and retain subsidies, the maximum amounts that child care providers will be reimbursed, and the administrative procedures that providers must follow. Thus, while CCDF is a single program from the perspective of federal law, it is in practice a different program in every state and territory. The CCDF Policies Database project is a comprehensive, up-to-date database of CCDF policy information that supports the needs of a variety of audiences through (1) analytic data files, (2) a project website and search tool, and (3) an annual report (Book of Tables). These are made available to researchers, administrators, and policymakers with the goal of addressing important questions concerning the effects of alternative child care subsidy policies and practices on the children and families served. A description of the data files, project website and search tool, and Book of Tables is provided below: 1. Detailed, longitudinal analytic data files provide CCDF policy information for all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the United States Territories and outlying areas that capture the policies actually in effect at a point in time, rather than proposals or legislation. They focus on the policies in place at the start of each fiscal year, but also capture changes during that fiscal year. The data are organized into 32 categories with each category of variables separated into its own dataset. The categories span five general areas of policy including: Eligibility Requirements for Families and Children (Datasets 1-5) Family Application, Terms of Authorization, and Redetermination (Datasets 6-13) Family Payments (Datasets 14-18) Policies for Providers, Including Maximum Reimbursement Rates (Datasets 19-27) Overall Administrative and Quality Information Plans (Datasets 28-32) The information in the data files is based primarily on the documents that caseworkers use as they work with families and providers (often termed "caseworker manuals"). The caseworker manuals generally provide much more detailed information on eligibility, family payments, and provider-related policies than the CCDF Plans submitted by states and territories to the federal government. The caseworker manuals also provide ongoing detail for periods in between CCDF Plan dates. Each dataset contains a series of variables designed to capture the intricacies of the rules covered in the category. The variables include a mix of categorical, numeric, and text variables. Most variables have a corresponding notes field to capture additional details related to that particular variable. In addition, each category has an additional notes field to capture any information regarding the rules that is not already outlined in the category's variables. 2. The project website and search tool provides access to a point-and-click user interface. Users can select from the full set of public data to create custom tables. The website also provides access to the full range of reports and products released under the CCDF Policies Database project. The project website and search tool and the data files provide a more detailed set of information than what the Book of Tables provides, including a wider selection of variables and policies over time. 3. The data from the Book of Tables are available as eleven datasets (Datasets 33-43) and they present key aspects of the differences in CCDF funded programs across all states and territories as of October 1, 2019. The Book of Tables includes variables that are calculated using several variables from the data files (Datasets 1-32). The Book of Tables summarizes a subset of the information available in the data files, and includes information about eligibility requirements for families; application, redetermination, priority, and waiting list policies; family co-payments; and provider policies and reimbursement rates. In many cases, a variable in the Book o

The statistic shows the share of adults who think the government should regulate how social media companies run political advertising in the United States as of April 2019, by ethnicity. According to the survey results, ** percent of responding Hispanics in the U.S. were of the opinion that the government should regulate how social media companies displayed political advertising.

The statistic shows the share of adults who think the government should regulate how social media companies run political advertising in the United States as of **********, by age group. According to the survey results, ** percent of U.S. respondents aged between 18 and 29 were of the opinion that the government should regulate how social media companies displayed political advertising, while ** percent had an opposing view.

The revenue from social contributions of the public sector in Colombia increased by *** billion U.S. dollars (+*** percent) since the previous year. In total, the government revenue amounted to ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2019.Data provided by Statista Market Insights are estimates. Find further statistics regarding revenue from social contributions in this context for countries like Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.

In 2019, the revenue from social contributions of the public sector in the Dominican Republic decreased by *** million U.S. dollars (-**** percent) since 2018. In total, the government revenue declined to ****** million U.S. dollars in 2019.Data provided by Statista Market Insights are estimates. Find further statistics regarding revenue from social contributions in this context for countries like Chile, Peru, and Argentina.

The revenue from social contributions of the public sector in Mexico increased by *** billion U.S. dollars (+**** percent) in 2019 in comparison to the previous year. With ***** billion U.S. dollars, the government revenue thereby reached its highest value in the observed period.Data provided by Statista Market Insights are estimates. Find further statistics regarding revenue from social contributions in this context for countries like Colombia, Guatemala, and Chile.

The revenue from social contributions of the public sector in Brazil decreased by *** billion U.S. dollars (-**** percent) since the previous year. In total, the government revenue declined to ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2019. Notably, the government revenue in this industry has been, with the exception of 2017, continuously decreasing over the last years.Data provided by Statista Market Insights are estimates. Find further statistics regarding revenue from social contributions in this context for countries like the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Paraguay.

The revenue from social contributions of the public sector in Argentina declined to ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2019. This marks the lowest government revenue in this industry during the observed period.Data provided by Statista Market Insights are estimates. Find further statistics regarding revenue from social contributions in this context for countries like Chile, El Salvador, and Uruguay.

The revenue from social contributions of the public sector in Guatemala increased by **** million U.S. dollars (+***** percent) since the previous year. With ****** million U.S. dollars, the government revenue thereby reached its highest value in the observed period. Notably, the government revenue in this industry has been, with the exception of 2017, continuously increasing over the last years.Data provided by Statista Market Insights are estimates. Find further statistics regarding revenue from social contributions in this context for countries like the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Peru.

The revenue from social contributions of the public sector in Costa Rica increased by *** billion U.S. dollars (+*** percent) in 2019 in comparison to the previous year. Therefore, the government revenue in Costa Rica reached a peak in 2019 with **** billion U.S. dollars. Notably, the government revenue in this industry has been, with the exception of 2017, continuously increasing over the last years.Data provided by Statista Market Insights are estimates. Find further statistics regarding revenue from social contributions in this context for countries like Chile, Uruguay, and El Salvador.

The revenue from social contributions of the public sector in Chile declined to **** billion U.S. dollars in 2019. This means a decline of *** billion U.S. dollars (**** percent) in comparison to the previous year.Data provided by Statista Market Insights are estimates. Find further statistics regarding revenue from social contributions in this context for countries like Guatemala, Uruguay, and the Dominican Republic.