Conditions Across The United States
The country, on its own terms: prices, work, output, pay and trade, and the national figures for income, poverty, employment, housing, health and education — 2 of them on one chart, so you can see whether they moved together. Every figure here is one that a government agency published for the United States.
Where Things Stand — August 2026
The six the country is read by, each over the periods it was published. Open one for its whole history, or read every measure the country publishes further down.
How Is the Economy Doing?
Each figure is what the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis or the Census Bureau published, and the few that are arithmetic over two published figures say so and show both.
The six that lead — Inflation, Unemployment (monthly), Jobs added, GDP growth, GDP and Trade balance — are at the top of this page, each with the shape behind it. Everything else the country publishes is below.
Prices
What things cost, and how fast that is changing. Published for the country and the four Census regions — there is no state or district price index, because the price sample is not designed to produce one.
Work
How many jobs there are, how many were added, and how many people are looking. Two different surveys count jobs and they do not agree; each says which it is.
Output
The value of what gets produced, in total and per person. Counted where production happens, which is not where the people who did it live.
Pay and income
What work pays, and everything residents receive. Averages, not medians — a few very large amounts pull both above what a typical person gets.
Trade
Goods sold abroad and bought from abroad. Goods only: services are about a quarter of what the country sells overseas and are not published by state.
Businesses
How many places of business there are.
Compare Federal Laws to these figures
Select a time period and topic, then pin a law to the chart to see how a figure changed after the law was enacted.
| Law | Enacted | Who voted yes and no | On the chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pub. L. 119-103Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027H.R. 6500 | 2026-09-02 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-102Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025S. 629Environment · Natural Resources & Wildlife · Public Safety & Emergency | 2026-07-12 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-10121st Century ROAD to Housing ActH.R. 6644Agriculture & Food · Banking, Finance & Insurance · Business & Commerce · Courts & Civil Procedure · Education · Energy & Utilities · Environment · Government Administration · Housing & Community Development · Property & Real Estate · Public Safety & Emergency · Technology & Telecommunications · Welfare & Social Services | 2026-07-11 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-100Lulu’s LawS. 1003 | 2026-06-26 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-99ARTIST ActS. 254 | 2026-06-12 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-98Secure America ActS. 2 | 2026-06-10 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-97Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization ActS. 2393 | 2026-06-09 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-90A bill to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction of certain hydropower projects.S. 1020 | 2026-05-11 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-88Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2025S. 723Property & Real Estate | 2026-05-04 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-87A bill to amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.S. 4465 | 2026-04-30 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-86Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.H.R. 7147 | 2026-04-30 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-85Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN.H.J.Res. 140 | 2026-04-27 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-83Small Business Innovation and Economic Security ActS. 3971Technology & Telecommunications | 2026-04-13 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-78Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025.H.J.Res. 142 | 2026-02-18 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-75Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026H.R. 7148Banking, Finance & Insurance · Business & Commerce · Courts & Civil Procedure · Criminal Law · Education · Elections & Government Ethics · Environment · Family Law · Government Administration · Health & Medicine · Labor & Employment · Public Safety & Emergency · Taxation · Technology & Telecommunications · Transportation & Motor Vehicles · Welfare & Social Services | 2026-02-03 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-74Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026H.R. 6938Business & Commerce · Government Administration · Labor & Employment · Natural Resources & Wildlife | 2026-01-23 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-66Congressional Award Program Reauthorization ActS. 284 | 2025-12-26 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-64Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines ActH.R. 1491Military & Veterans · Public Safety & Emergency · Taxation | 2025-12-26 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-62MAPWaters Act of 2025H.R. 187Technology & Telecommunications | 2025-12-26 | ||
| Pub. L. 119-61Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site ActH.R. 165 | 2025-12-19 |
2,232 public laws with a recorded vote, newest first. A law is listed here only if a roll call that carried it is on record, which is a minority of all public laws: most pass by voice vote or unanimous consent, and no list of who voted yes and no exists for those. The votes are on the enacting bill, often an omnibus carrying a hundred unrelated titles, never on one provision. A law’s topics are the subjects of the US Code provisions it enacted or amended, so a law whose text is not yet in the Code carries none and a topic filter leaves it out. Pinning a law marks the earliest published figure that could reflect it. It is not a claim that the law moved the figure, and a national series moves for a hundred reasons at once.
What these numbers are not
Two surveys count jobs and they disagree. Payroll jobs come from a survey of employers and count jobs rather than people — someone working two is counted twice. Covered jobs come from employers’ unemployment-insurance filings, which is a census rather than a sample and is why that one reaches a congressional district. Neither is wrong; they are different questions, and the gap between them is about ten million.
There is no state inflation rate. Prices are collected from a sample built for the nation, the four Census regions and a handful of large metro areas. No arithmetic over those produces a figure for Wyoming, and anyone publishing one has made it up. Each state page offers its region’s index instead, labelled as the region’s.
Output is counted where it happens, income where people live. A district of refineries and few residents has a very high output per person without anyone there being paid more; income per person is the measure that follows the residents.
A district figure is allocated, not published. No agency publishes GDP or wages for a congressional district. Where this site shows one, it was built from the counties that overlap the district, weighted by population — which assumes the money is spread like the people, and says so on every page that draws it, with the share of the district’s residents its reporting counties covered.
None of this is attributed to anyone. The site puts these figures beside the people who represent the places they describe, and draws no line between the two: a district’s unemployment rate is not its representative’s record, and nothing here should be read as saying it is.