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The two H-1B economies: Google offers a $184,000 median, Infosys $92,581
Product companies and outsourcing firms now sit on opposite sides of the program's $120,000 median offer, and the filing volume has flipped between them.
H-1B demand against the 85,000 cap: 567,907 certified applications in one year
Employers cleared 6.7 times the annual visa quota in fiscal 2025. The overflow is not a paradox; it is how the program is built.
US federal deficit by month: April is the only month the government comes out ahead
The Treasury ran an April surplus in 10 of the last 12 years, the only month averaging positive since 2015. February is the deepest deficit month, and 2020 is the row where the pattern broke.
The federal dollar end to end: two taxes carry it in, a quarter is borrowed
Calendar 2025 as one flow chart: individual income and payroll taxes supplied 83 percent of receipts, borrowing covered 25.4 percent of the $7,199 billion spent, and net interest out-flowed national defense for the second year.
4 minAug 1, 2026Where the federal dollar goes: two agencies move most of it
Federal agencies committed $5.3 trillion through awards in fiscal 2025. Health and Human Services and Social Security moved 69 cents of every dollar of it; Defense, the government's biggest contract buyer, is a distant third.
4 minJul 14, 2026US debt interest payments hit a $1.35 trillion pace: the bill has doubled in four years
June's $185 billion payment was the largest single month in the series. The trailing-year total is $1.35 trillion, twice what it was in June 2022.
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