Social Insurance and Public Assistance
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(Includes both trust fund and federal fund items)
- National Government Outlays for Social Insurance and Public Assistance, 1940 to estimated 2008, in Billions of Current and Constant (2002) dollars
- National Government Social Insurance and Public Assistance Outlays: Yearly inflation-adjusted Change and as Percent of Outlays, 1940 to estimated 2004
- Inflation-adjusted Change in National Government Social Insurance and Public Assistance Outlays by Presidential Term, 1940 to estimated 2004
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), changed to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) by 1996 legislation, and Food Stamps (both are federal fund items, paid from federal funds; each is about 1 percent of national government outlays); AFDC-TANF usually is labeled as the main national government “welfare” program
- National Government Outlays for AFDC-TANF and Food Stamps, 1940 to estimated 2008, in Billions of Current and Constant (2002) dollars
- National Government AFDC-TANF and Food Stamp Outlays: Yearly inflation-adjusted Change and as Percent of Outlays, 1940 to estimated 2004
- Inflation-adjusted Change in National Government Outlays for AFDC-TANF and Food Stamps by Presidential Term, 1940 to estimated 2004
- Summary pdf file with all charts in this social insurance and public assistance section