Contrary to the previous 4 years, USAFacts provides a data-driven portrait of the American population, U.S. governments’ finances, and governments’ impact on society. They are a nonpartisan, not-for-profit civic initiative without a political agenda. They provide vital spending, revenue, demographic, and performance information as a free public service and are committed to maintaining and expanding our available data in the future.
They have previously partnered with academic institutions and experts like the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s (PWBM) and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) to help keep our data accurate and unbiased.
USAFacts believes that facts deserve to be heard. Democracy is only successful when it’s grounded in truth. They have provided that grounding with trusted government data that’s both easy to access and understand. They standardize data straight from government agencies and present it in plain language with helpful visualizations so you can understand the history of programs and policies. Americans deserve unbiased facts straight from the government to have serious, reasoned, and informed debate.
As the largest source for standardized US government data, USAFacts offers something unique. They exclusively use publicly available government data presenting a vast array of reports on US spending, revenue, population and demographics, and policy outcomes. They don’t make judgments or prescribe policies. Whether government money is spent wisely or not, whether the quality of life is improving or getting worse — that’s for you to decide.
USAFacts presents metrics on all US governments, from federal records to a growing collection of state and county data, including coronavirus data. They also produce a 10-K, modeled on the document that public companies must submit annually to the SEC for transparency and accountability to their investors.