claim: "the size of our federal government has more than doubled since the year 2000."
author: scott bruun
evidence_1: dec 10, 2018 ... year over year growth in health services spending by quarter, 2010 - 2018 ...  $2,600 $2,800 $3,000 $3,200 $3,400 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 ... the amount  spent on health had more than doubled to $3.5 trillion. ... total national health  expenditures as a percent of gross domestic product, 1970-2017.
evidence_2: jun 11, 2015 ... since 2000, they have had the option to identify with more than one. ... they  employ census race and hispanic origin data to comply with federal ... this two- question format was introduced in 1980, the first year that a hispanic .....  population of two-race ancestry has more than doubled in size, from about 5.1 ...
evidence_3: breaking the 100-year period into several distinct subperiods, this article ... for  100 years, the index has been a major measure of consumer inflation in the u.s.  .... the prices of most foods, clothing, and dry goods more than doubled. the cpi  ..... treat the matter, the bureau recorded this reduction in size as a price increase.
evidence_4: year of reporting for the united states is 2012; years for other nations range from  .... in the 1980s, the incarcerated population more than doubled in size across all  ... beginning from a much smaller base, the federal prison population grew at a  .... in the period since 2000, incarceration rates have grown more slowly across ...
evidence_5: apr 22, 2017 ... the number of students globally has doubled since 2000—and it's private ...  internationally, more students than ever are attending college. ... higher  education globally more than doubled to 207 million, according to a paper (pdf) ...  as government universities struggle to accommodate the swelling ranks of ...