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The 2022 State of the Union in Numbers

The annual State of the Union address is scheduled for March 1. But what do the numbers say? USAFacts' third annual State of the Union in Numbers ([link removed]) is back to help you assess the country’s progress with data instead of rhetoric.

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* Federal spending is up 46% ([link removed]) since 2019.

* Spending for Medicare, Social Security, defense and veterans, debt interest, plus assistance like stimulus checks and unemployment insurance accounted for 80.5% of federal expenditures.

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* The federal government collected $12,294 per person ([link removed]) in fiscal year 2021 for a total of $4.1 trillion. Ninety-two percent of revenue was from individual income, payroll, and corporate income taxes.​

* Revenue was equivalent to 17.3% of GDP, in line with the 18% annual average since 1980.
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* Average hourly earnings grew 10% from December 2019 to December 2021 ([link removed]) before adjusting for inflation — and grew less than 1.6% after adjusting.

* Violent crime rose 5.6% from 2019 to 2020 ([link removed]) , while property crime decreased 7.8%.

* Customs and Border Protection apprehended or turned away more than 1.9 million people last year ([link removed]) — the most since 2000.

Use the State of the Union in Numbers ([link removed]) to get the nonpartisan facts behind questions like, how is the country’s population changing ([link removed]) ?​ Who is immigrating to the US ([link removed]) ? Are students succeeding or backsliding ([link removed]) ? This report is a handy, data-centric tool not just for the speech and the rebuttal, but for informing your conversations year-round.

What else is new at USAFacts?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics updated its 2021 data ([link removed]) to reveal a job market seemingly unaffected by coronavirus variants. Plus, to close out Black History Month, see where the nation’s Black population has moved and changed ([link removed]) between the 2010 and the 2020 censuses.

One last fact
There were nine active strikes of at least 1,000 workers in 2021. Eight were new, while one by Charter Communications workers in New Jersey and New York began in 2017 and is ongoing.

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