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The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. economy, including employment and GDP.
Three types of quarterly charts give the clearest, complementary picture of how the and subsequent policy choices shaped GDP from 2017–2024: level series of real GDP to show the depth and recovery pat...
and related fiscal actions added roughly $5–5.6 trillion of fiscal support in 2020–2021 and drove federal deficits to peacetime highs — deficits of about 14.9 percent of GDP in 2020 and 12.4 percent i...
on the federal debt have climbed sharply since 2017 — moving from historically modest levels to roughly $881 billion in 2024, with projections putting annual payments at or above $1 trillion by 2026 a...
During Donald Trump’s first term, headline indicators showed mixed results: unemployment fell to half-century lows before the COVID-19 collapse and the stock market reached record highs, while GDP gro...