- By the end of 2020, Texas added more children than any other state, growing by 6% to 7.3 million. Overall, the state’s population grew 16%.
- West Virginia’s population declined the most (down 3%) and had a 7% decline in people under 18. Mississippi’s population was down 0.2% but had a 10% decrease in children.
- The under-18 population grew among Hispanic, Asian, and non-Hispanic multiracial children. Multiracial, non-Hispanic children increased the most of these groups, up 76% to 4.9 million in 2020.
- Non-Hispanic white children dropped 13%, from 39.7 million in 2010 to 34.6 million in 2020.
Trace growth and declines in your county. You can also learn more about the declining US birth rate (last year’s rate was the lowest since 1979) right here.
The debt ceiling debate
The Senate reached an agreement late last week to raise the nation's debt ceiling through early December. If you're curious why this debate seems to come up fairly often — and it'll be back in the national spotlight this winter — here are the basics. For more, read this explanation from USAFacts. - The debt ceiling, or debt limit, restricts how much the government can borrow to pay its bills. This limit strictly relates to spending already approved and appropriated by Congress.
- In 1939, Congress removed various separate limits on government debt and replaced them with a general restriction now referred to as the debt limit.
- Congress stopped passing annual debt limit increases in fiscal year 2008, using short-term increases instead. It enacted the Budget Control Act in 2011 after multiple failed attempts to raise the debt limit. The act raised the ceiling but imposed automatic, comprehensive cuts proportional to debt limit increases.
Learn more here, including the extraordinary actions the Treasury Department has taken in this century to keep the government funded.
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