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 was the most important priority in 1950, but it was replaced by food 60 years later.
Regarding the percentage of money allocated to housing and food, in 1950, the largest proportion of money was spent on housing at 72.1%, which was nearly seven times that spent on food. However, the amount of money for housing dropped noticeably to only 22% after six decades, whereas food 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 remained almost unchanged. Finally, only a tiny amount of expenditure was distributed to health care, accounting for 2.4% in 1950 and 4.5% in 2010.