Economy
What is the Consumer Price Index, and what does the monthly CPI report mean for the US economy?
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Here are the states where people pay the most per capita on corrective taxes.
Social Security trust funds are projected to run out unless Congress changes the program’s structure soon.
Forty-three states and Washington, DC, collect income taxes every year—and seven states collect no income tax. Here’s where you can expect to pay more, or less.
This year's USAFacts 10-K provides spending data from all levels of government. It can serve as an important document given the current debate over the debt ceiling — a heated discussion that could benefit from some cooler, data-driven perspectives.
Ahead of Tax Day, USAFacts collected the multitude of tax data and analysis across the site. Plus, a look at the CDC metrics on the rates at which teenagers carry guns.
California, Vermont, and Oregon have the highest rates of homelessness across the 50 states.
Individual income taxes accounted for more than half of total revenues for the federal government in 2022.
Corporations reduce their tax liability through a variety of ways, such as accelerated depreciation and profit shifting.
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that about 150 corporations would be subject to a new minimum corporate tax each year.
About two-thirds of individual capital gains subject to tax are from selling corporate stock; the remainder is from property sales.
