{"id":95908,"date":"2025-06-24T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95908"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:28:00","slug":"how-the-national-debt-affects-the-u-s-and-you-in-10-charts-bogage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/06\/24\/how-the-national-debt-affects-the-u-s-and-you-in-10-charts-bogage\/","title":{"rendered":"How the national debt affects the U.S. \u2014 and you \u2014 in 10 charts\u00a0[Bogage]"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the national debt affects the U.S. \u2014 and you \u2014 in 10 charts<\/strong><\/a> — from washingtonpost.com by Jacob Bogage; this is a GIFTED article<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the government and economy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The federal government is taking on record amounts of debt year after year.<\/p>\n

The U.S. owes lenders more than $36 trillion. That is close to an all-time high when comparing the debt to the country\u2019s total economic output \u2014 a leading indicator of the nation\u2019s ability to pay it all back.<\/p>\n

Debt and annual deficits have colored much of the debate around President Donald Trump and Republicans\u2019 One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the mammoth tax and immigration measure the GOP hopes to pass through Congress before July 4. It would add $3 trillion to the debt over the next decade, factoring in the cost of the bill plus interest on the added borrowing, according to nonpartisan estimates.<\/p>\n

But how does the national debt affect the U.S. economy and the government? Here are 10 charts to explain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How the national debt affects the U.S. \u2014 and you \u2014 in 10 charts — from washingtonpost.com by Jacob Bogage; this is a GIFTED article The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the government and economy. The federal government is taking on record amounts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,211,37,35,178,234,480,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-funding-grants","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-history","category-society","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95911,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95908\/revisions\/95911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}