Brett Theodos is a senior fellow and director of the Community Economic Development Hub at the Urban Institute. His work focuses on economic and community development, neighborhood change, affordable homeownership, consumer finance, and program evaluation and learning.
Elaine Waxman is a senior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Her expertise includes food insecurity, nutrition and the...
Doug Wissoker, a senior fellow with the Statistical Methods Group at the Urban Institute, is a labor economist with expertise in statistical and survey methods...
Stephen Zuckerman is a senior fellow and codirector of the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. He has studied health economics and health policy...
TOTAL REVENUES The federal government collected revenues of $4.9 trillion in 2022—equal to 19.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) (figure 2). Over the past...
Mandatory Spending Mandatory spending covers outlays controlled by laws other than appropriations acts. Almost all such spending is for “entitlements,” for which expenditures depend on...
As shown in figure 1, federal government current receipts were just under $4.3 trillion in 2021. Tax receipts were 60 percent of this total, contributions...