For the 2023 budget, defense spending equaled about $891 billion, or approximately 9 percent of the federal budget. Social Security Payments for the Social Security system constituted about 21 percent of the federal budget in 2023, with expenditures of about $1.3 trillion. The Social Security sys...
In a new projection from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the federal budget deficit – the gap between government revenue vs. spending – will be $1.9 trillion for the 2024 fiscal year. Thedeficit forecastis $400 billion higher than the CBO’s last estimate in February, an i...
Among the provinces, per capita spending grew at massively different rates, with Newfoundland’s budget soaring 19 times faster than its population, while spending in Nova Scotia and Alberta grew less than two times as fast as the population. Article content Here is a look at provincial health ...
March 28, 2023Financial Post Read the full text of the 2023 federal budget from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland Over the next five years, the government will increase spending by nearly $60 billion with Video11 Comments March 28, 2023Canadian Politics ...
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That wet blanket question isn't popular, but it will need to be asked often in the coming years.Too often, American families used credit cards and home equity to avoid it.And the federal government did much the same, using debt and budget gimmicks to justify increased spending.Now a ...
On April 16, 2024, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland tabled a new federal budget, which sets out the federal government’s revamped spending priorities and tax plans (the “2024 Budget”). The theme of the 2024 Budget is “fairness for every generation” with the general intention...
Harvard’s lobbying spending remained at prior levels during the fourth quarter of 2023, when former Harvard President Claudine Gay sparked national backlash during her testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. University spokesperson Jason A. Newton wrote in a statement that...
Australia’s budget for climate-related measures is set to decline over the next four years, whilst spending on high-emitting energy projects will increase.
The single biggest expenditure of the federal government in FY 2023 was for Social Security, which takes up 21% of the government's dollars. Defense spending, which dominated the budget for some years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, was 13% in FY 2023.2 The President and Budget Negotiatio...