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Articles About usgovernmentspending.com’s Data
by Christopher Chantrill
The articles below provide to researchers background information on the spending data used at usgovernmentspending.com.
Topics covered include data sources, update schedules, projections of future spending, and intergovernmental transfers.
All About Intergovernmental Transfers 11/29/07
Federal Spending at the Agency Code Level 11/29/07
Government Spending and Revenue Data: Sources 12/24/07
How We Got The Data For usgovernmentspending.com 12/24/07
Latest Update to Government Spending and Revenue Data 06/13/08
Spending Estimates From Previous Budgets 02/05/08
World War I Defense Spending 03/20/08
World War II Defense Spending 12/25/07
Democratic Capitalism
Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets
and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Government Expenditure
The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Mutual Aid
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society