Over 2 million people attend the swearing-in ceremony as 44th President of the United States of Barack Obama on the Washington Mall. The election of the Democratic Senator from Illinois, decreed by the popular vote on November 4, was officially confirmed on December 15 by 365 out of 538 electors. Pragmatism in the formation of… Read More »
The revenues of the federal budget are for the most part made up of taxes on income and profits, which exceed half of the total revenue, and customs duties, constitutionally reserved for the central government. The taxes on oil and those on driving licenses (cars, etc.), as well as part of the income tax itself, are instead… Read More »
The gross national product of the USA exceeded 500 billion dollars during 1960, a figure which is almost double that recorded in the year 1949 taken as a starting point (Table 1). Between the two extreme years specified above, the geometric mean progression of gross national product at current prices was 6.3% per year. Eliminating… Read More »
Religion Religiosity in the United States is characterized by pluralism. Of Christian communities did in the 1600s Roman Catholic stronghold in the then French Maryland. Other colonies on the East Coast were dominated by Protestants: Anglicans in Virginia, Congregationalists in Massachusetts, Calvinists in New Jersey, and Lutherans in Delaware. Soon, Quakers, Mennonites (eg Amish) and… Read More »