Graph and download economic data for Government current expenditures: Income security: Welfare and social services (G160371A027NBEA) from 1959 to 2023 about social assistance, expenditures, government, services, income, GDP, and USA.

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United States - Government current expenditures: Income security: Welfare and social services was 400.23900 Bil. of $ in January of 2023, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Government current expenditures: Income security: Welfare and social services reached a record high of 975.54200 in January of 2021 and a record low of 4.16100 in January of 1960. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Government current expenditures: Income security: Welfare and social services - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the subregion with the largest central government social spending per capita is the Caribbean. There, the average public social spending reached 1,945 U.S. dollars per person in 2022, while it stood at 1,335 dollars in South America and 725 dollars in the region comprised by Central America, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. While these two regions registered a lower spending than the Caribbean, the average has been steadily increasing during most of the past two decades.

In 2023, the U.S. government had a budget deficit of 1.69 trillion U.S. dollars. This is compared to 2000, when the government had a budget surplus of 0.24 trillion U.S. dollars.

U.S. Government budget

The government budget is a financial statement that demonstrates the government’s suggested revenues and spending for the financial year. Budget surpluses occur when income exceeds expenditures. Budget deficits occur when spending exceeds income. The budget balance of the U.S. government has fluctuated since 2016, and is expected to decrease slightly by 2026.

Military spending

Defense outlays in the United States amounted to 714 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. It is expected to continue to increase over the next several years. The United States currently has the largest defense budget in the world, and is the largest employer in the world. The military budget funds the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force. The amount of funding that goes towards the Department of Defense is heavily criticized by Democrats in the United States, because they believe that the funding should be more evenly distributed towards other social welfare programs such as public health insurance and education.

Issue ownership theory posits that when social welfare is electorally salient, left-wing parties gain public support by rhetorically emphasizing social welfare issues. There is less research, however, on whether left-wing governing parties benefit from increasing social welfare spending. That is, it is not known whether leftist governments gain from acting on the issues they rhetorically emphasize. This article presents arguments that voters will not react to governments’ social welfare rhetoric, and reviews the conflicting arguments about how government support responds to social welfare spending. It then reports time-series, cross-sectional analyses of data on government support, governments’ social welfare rhetoric and social welfare spending from Britain, Spain and the United States, that support the prediction that government rhetoric has no effects. The article estimates, however, that increased social welfare spending sharply depresses support for both left- and right-wing governments. These findings highlight a strategic dilemma for left-wing governments, which lose public support when they act on their social welfare rhetoric by increasing welfare spending.

United States - Government current expenditures: State and local: Income security: Welfare and social services was 215.14700 Bil. of $ in January of 2023, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Government current expenditures: State and local: Income security: Welfare and social services reached a record high of 229.75200 in January of 2022 and a record low of 3.93700 in January of 1959. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Government current expenditures: State and local: Income security: Welfare and social services - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

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Graph and download economic data for Government consumption expenditures and gross investment: State and local: Income security (W678RG3A086NBEA) from 1959 to 2023 about social assistance, state & local, investment, gross, consumption expenditures, consumption, government, income, GDP, and USA.

The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During WWII", by Caprettini and Voth. Please see the README file for additional details.

Global Government Expenditures on Social Protection Share by Country (Million US Dollars PPP), 2023 Discover more data with ReportLinker!

In this paper we explore the relationship between Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration and their attitudes toward welfare. Using data from the Cumulative American National Election Study (CANES) from 1992-2012, we find ample evidence of the influence of immigration attitudes on both individuals’ attitudes toward welfare recipients and their attitudes toward increased welfare spending. These immigration effects persist even in face of statistical controls for attitudes toward African Americans and attitudes toward the poor; indeed, in our models the magnitude of the effects of immigration attitudes surpasses the magnitude of effects of attitudes toward blacks. Further, our findings of immigration effects withstand a range of robustness tests. Our results point to the possible "immigrationalization" of Americans’ welfare attitudes and provide strong evidence that how Americans think about immigration and immigrants is a major factor in how they think about welfare.

United States - Government consumption expenditures and gross investments: State and local: Income security: Welfare and social services was 127.04500 Bil. of $ in January of 2023, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Government consumption expenditures and gross investments: State and local: Income security: Welfare and social services reached a record high of 127.04500 in January of 2023 and a record low of 0.63400 in January of 1959. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Government consumption expenditures and gross investments: State and local: Income security: Welfare and social services - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

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United States US: Welfare Costs of Premature Deaths from Exposure to Lead:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductEquivalent data was reported at 0.570 % in 2019. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.570 % for 2018. United States US: Welfare Costs of Premature Deaths from Exposure to Lead:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductEquivalent data is updated yearly, averaging 0.710 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2019, with 30 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.990 % in 1990 and a record low of 0.570 % in 2019. United States US: Welfare Costs of Premature Deaths from Exposure to Lead:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductEquivalent data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OECD.GGI: Social: Air Quality and Health: OECD Member: Annual.

Global Civil Government Budget Allocations for R&D for Education and Social Programmes Share by Country (Million US Dollars PPP), 2023 Discover more data with ReportLinker!

United States US: Welfare Costs of Premature Mortalities from Exposure to Residential Radon:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductEquivalent data was reported at 0.250 % in 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.240 % for 2018. United States US: Welfare Costs of Premature Mortalities from Exposure to Residential Radon:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductEquivalent data is updated yearly, averaging 0.250 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2019, with 30 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.280 % in 1995 and a record low of 0.230 % in 2015. United States US: Welfare Costs of Premature Mortalities from Exposure to Residential Radon:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductEquivalent data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OECD.GGI: Social: Air Quality and Health: OECD Member: Annual.

United States - Government social insurance funds: Current state and local expenditures: Government social benefit payments to persons was 20.16000 Bil. of $ in January of 2023, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Government social insurance funds: Current state and local expenditures: Government social benefit payments to persons reached a record high of 20.16000 in January of 2023 and a record low of 0.00000 in January of 1942. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Government social insurance funds: Current state and local expenditures: Government social benefit payments to persons - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Because the American states operate under balanced budget requirements, increases in spending in one area typically entail equal and opposite budget cuts in other programs. The literature analyzing the correlates of government spending by policy area has mostly ignored these tradeoffs inherent to policy-making, failing to address one of the most politically interesting and important dimensions of fiscal policy. Borrowing from the statistical literature on compositional data, we present more appropriate and efficient methods that explicitly incorporate the budget constraint into models of spending by budget category. We apply these methods to eight categories of spending from the American states over the years 1984--2009 to reveal winners and losers in the scramble for government spending. Our findings show that partisan governments finance their distinct priorities by raiding spending items that the opposition prefers, while different political institutions, economic conditions, and state demographics impose different tradeoffs across the budget.

Global Government Budget Allocations for R&D in Political and Social Systems, Structures and Processes Share by Country (Million US Dollars PPP), 2023 Discover more data with ReportLinker!