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This was $14 billion above the median expectation of $353 billion. For the first 2 months of the Fiscal Year 2025, the total deficit now stands at $624 BILLION, the highest on record. This is up a staggering 64% from the $380 billion seen last year and above 2020 pandemic levels. To put this into perspective, the budget gap was 3 TIMES lower on average during the 2013-2017 period. submitted by /u/XGramatik |
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The fall in US birth rates from 1960-1980 was mostly driven by couples having fewer children (avg number of children born to a woman halved from almost 4 to 2) … yet in the past couple decades, the fall in birth rates has been driven by fewer couples
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