As a share of total spending, welfare spending has risen from 13.4% of state and local budgets at the start of the millennium to 18.8% in 2019. But even on a per capita basis, spending is up nearly ...

Trump’s signature legislation will push defense spending past $1 trillion, with new funding for innovation and other ...

Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

Thirty-one states, plus the District of Columbia, received more than they paid in. New Mexico, for example, sent around $12.4 ...

We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining ...