Across
- 4. this change has been happening to the discretionary spending percentage of the national budget
- 6. health insurance program for the elderly. It takes "CARE" of the elderly.
- 8. while entitements are a massive part of the budget this is the major component of discretionary spending
- 9. By 2019, mandatory spending became the equivalent to _____________ percent of GDP
- 10. spending set up by law
Down
- 1. A major reason that Social Security is a larger part of the budget is that Americans are living _________
- 2. mandatory spending involves entitlements (aka social program spending) but another part of mandatory spending is _____________ on the national debt
- 3. type of spending which can change & vary
- 5. measure of the goods & services produced by a nation
- 6. insurance program which provides assistance to the poor in paying medical bills
- 7. life expectancy increased by this much between 1962 and 2019