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2019 Dec 9, 8:06am   568 views  3 comments

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https://usafacts.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA_rfvBRCPARIsANlV66MbRwaSUBFOVZLC_UyXcy-xWMviDwFUzp_vHwtI96qEm55vPNM-WBUaAjjXEALw_wcB




USAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society. We are a non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative and have no political agenda or commercial motive. We provide this information as a free public service and are committed to maintaining and expanding it in the future.

We rely exclusively on publicly available government data sources. We don’t make judgments or prescribe specific policies. Whether government money is spent wisely or not, whether our quality of life is improving or getting worse – that’s for you to decide. We hope to spur serious, reasoned, and informed debate on the purpose and functions of government. Such debate is vital to our democracy. We hope that USAFacts will make a modest contribution toward building consensus and finding solutions.

There’s more to USAFacts than this website. We also offer an annual report, a summary report, and a “10-K” modeled on the document public companies submit annually to the SEC for transparency and accountability to their investors.

What makes USAFacts different:

Comprehensive
Comprehensible
Factual and Unbiased
Contextual
People-centric
WHAT INSPIRED US

USAFacts was inspired by a conversation Steve Ballmer had with his wife, Connie. She wanted him to get more involved in philanthropic work. He thought it made sense to first find out what government does with the money it raises. Where does the money come from and where is it spent? Whom does it serve? And most importantly, what are the outcomes?

With his business background, Steve searched for solid, reliable, impartial numbers to tell the story… but eventually realized he wasn’t going to find them. He put together a small team of people – economists, writers, researchers – and got to work.

We soon discovered that dealing with something as big and complex as government – with its more than 90,000 jurisdictions and 23 million employees – required an organizing framework. What better place to look than the Constitution, and, more specifically, the preamble to the Constitution? It lays out four missions: “Establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility; provide for the common defense; promote the general welfare; and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” While we don’t make judgments about policy, we all agree on the broad purposes of government as laid out in the preamble to the Constitution.

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1   Patrick   2019 Dec 9, 8:37am  

Would be better with a quote.
2   ignoreme   2019 Dec 9, 10:56am  

Why does the left always make these dumb biased websites claiming to be unbiased. Everything is biased, it’s impossible not to be. Claiming to be unbiased just proves you are a liar.
3   ignoreme   2019 Dec 9, 11:02am  

Case in point, none of their statistics can be broken down by race. Biased.

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