https://higginsstrategy.com/ Dated, sourced, signed. en-us https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/every-state-dollar/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/every-state-dollar/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How much of each state’s money comes from Washington, what it pays for, what the 2025 law moves onto state books, and what the states hold in reserve. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/what-the-region-makes/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/what-the-region-makes/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The economies of the District, Maryland and Virginia by industry since 1997: how much is federal, what else they make, what they earn, and what they export and to whom. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/every-dollar-of-war/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/every-dollar-of-war/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What the United States has spent on defense, veterans and the world since 1940, per resident and in fiscal 2025 dollars, and what it bought. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/every-federal-job/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/every-federal-job/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Between January 2025 and September 2026 the United States shed federal civilian jobs, and this study follows every one. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/every-federal-job-in-the-region/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/every-federal-job-in-the-region/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Twelve pictures of what happened to the federal payroll in Washington, Maryland and Virginia between January 2025 and August 2026. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/five-thousand-dollars-each/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/five-thousand-dollars-each/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a $5,000 check to every citizen would cost, where the money would go, and what the interest on the borrowing would come to, using what the country learned from the pandemic checks of 2020 and 2021. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/the-debt-the-waste-and-the-tax/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/the-debt-the-waste-and-the-tax/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The national debt from 1790, the deficits and interest behind it, the Congressional Budget Office’s path for the next thirty years, and the two questions every argument about it comes to: what is wasted, and who pays. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/the-interest-bill/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/the-interest-bill/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What the federal government pays to carry its debt, $970B of net interest in fiscal 2025 and 18.5 cents of every tax dollar, what makes it grow, and which levers stop it. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/federal-dollars-by-state-over-time/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/federal-dollars-by-state-over-time/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What each state is recorded as receiving, FY2014 to FY2025, and the $1.16 trillion of Medicare that USAspending records not where the patients live but in the twelve states, and the counties, where the records place the entities CMS pays. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/the-same-question-different-numbers/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/the-same-question-different-numbers/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four credible estimates give four answers to one question, and in every case the gap has a documented cause. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/two-reports-one-economy/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/two-reports-one-economy/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT In nearly every year since 1948 the Joint Economic Committee has bound the majority's account of the economy and the minority's into one document. https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/which-inflation/ https://higginsstrategy.com/studies/which-inflation/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nine published measures of inflation: in July 2026 they disagreed by 1.22 percentage points.