A U.S. board you can clear in one pass
The layout keeps the board dense without turning noisy, so you can move from debt, revenue, and interest costs straight into households, markets, and fiscal stress.
The layout keeps the board dense without turning noisy, so you can move from debt, revenue, and interest costs straight into households, markets, and fiscal stress.
Open a state page, compare one year to another, or isolate a single metric when the headline number is no longer enough.
Every major figure sits with plain-language context and source notes, so you are not left staring at a big number with no explanation of what is driving it.
The board keeps debt, deficit, interest, money, markets, households, and state pressure in one frame so you can see what is actually moving the national story.
This board is built for the American debt story from top to bottom. You can move from the federal total into interest cost, deficit pace, monetary policy, household strain, and state-level pressure without feeling like you are reading a copy of the global page.
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This list is for readers who want more than the headline total. It gives you the number, the pages that explain it, and the file drops that make the U.S. board easier to trust, share, and revisit.
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Alabama runs a FY2025 budget of about $43.9B, with federal aid covering 39.36% and motor vehicles leading roughly $23.7B in exports.
Alaska runs a FY2025 budget of about $15.8B, with federal aid covering 45.29% and seafood / fish leading roughly $6.5B in exports.
Arizona runs a FY2025 budget of about $73.6B, with federal aid covering 24.44% and electronic circuits leading roughly $32B in exports.
Arkansas runs a FY2025 budget of about $32.5B, with federal aid covering 33.9% and poultry / rice leading roughly $8B in exports.
California runs a FY2025 budget of about $510.3B, with federal aid covering 33.78% and computer equipment leading roughly $188.4B in exports.
Colorado runs a FY2025 budget of about $46.3B, with federal aid covering 28.54% and electronic circuits leading roughly $14B in exports.
Connecticut runs a FY2025 budget of about $45.3B, with federal aid covering 24.81% and aircraft parts leading roughly $15B in exports.
Delaware runs a FY2025 budget of about $17.5B, with federal aid covering 22.51% and pharmaceuticals leading roughly $4.5B in exports.
The headline debt counter keeps Treasury’s Debt to the Penny anchor at the center of the U.S. surface.
This metric makes the national total easier to grasp by translating it into a per-person figure.
This view frames the debt against the tax base and helps people understand the scale in a more direct way.
Interest is now large enough to compete with major program categories, so it deserves its own first-order page.
The 1980 page is the classic debt-clock contrast point: lower debt ratios, different demographics, and a dramatically smaller nominal economy.
The 1990 frame captures the late-Cold-War to post-Cold-War transition and the early modern deficit debate.
The 2000 page is the clean “before everything changed” benchmark for the modern U.S. debt story.
The financial crisis year marks the transfer from private leverage stress into public-balance-sheet expansion.
If you want the total, it is here. If you want to know why it is rising, how it compares with earlier years, or how your state fits into the picture, those pages are here too. The goal is to give you the headline fast and the context one click behind it.
The uploaded 50-state workbook used to populate FY2025 budget, federal-aid, export, and GDP-share details across the state pages.
The uploaded state slide deck covering fiscal mix, export leadership, and comparative state risk framing.
The uploaded PDF notes supporting the state data story and fiscal/export page structure.