The line chart shows US governments spendings on different areas from 1980 to 2008.
Overall, the total amount of spending continue to rise because of most areas has kept growing.
Notably, health is the major force of spending growing. Initially, the spending in Health was less than 10 billion US dollars in 1980 and it reached a peak of over 20 billion US dollars in 2004, even with a slight decrease it still managed to increase by almost 300% by the end of 2008.
Similarly, both Space and Genera Science kept growing as well. From 1980 to 2008, they both doubled their spending during the time period.
In contrast, spending in Energy and Other areas show a fluctuating trend. With spending went up and down between 1980 to 2008, they almost stay the same which shows the spending of such areas won’t be affected by time.
