Archive Report
Archive Report
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Richard M. Boeckel, Editor
The Present Size of the Government Debt
On September 30, the official figure for the outstanding public debt of the United States government was $38,392,725,250. The federal deficit for the first quarter of the current fiscal year was over $700,000,000, and is expected to grow to about $4,000,000,000 by June 30, 1939, at which time it is estimated that the debt will exceed $40,000,000,000.
No complete figure for the combined debts of the states and local units is available later than 1932, but several government departments have ...