The given charts provide information about the changes in the amount of money spent on different purposes over 60 years, from 1950.
Overall, the expenditures on education and housing experienced a downward trend, while the opposite was true in the case of the remaining categories. It is also clear that housing saw the most dramatic change.
Regarding the percentage of money allocated to housing and food, in 1950, the largest proportion of most money was spent on housing at 72.1%, which was nearly seven times more than that of food. However, the former dropped further to only 22% after six decades, whereas the latter increased in popularity and reached 34% in the final year, being the leading figure.
In terms of the remaining categories, all of them witnessed varying increases. In the first year, the proportion of money spent on transportation and other purposes stood at 3.3% and 4.4% before rising significantly to 14% and 19.2%, respectively. Meanwhile, money for education stayed almost unchanged. Finally, just a tiny amount of expenditure was distributed to health care, accounting for 2.4% in 1950 and 4.5% in 2010.