In Fiscal Year 2021, federal spending was equal to 30% of the total gross domestic product (GDP), or economic activity, of the United States that year ($22.39 trillion).
Because Justinian declared Islam as the official religion.
First the Republic needed money to run, second there was a lot of graft and corruption amongst elected officials, and finally crime was running wild throughout Rome.
Answer: Though poverty has declined in India, but despite the progress, poverty reduction remains India's most compelling challenge. Wide disparities in poverty are visible between rural and urban areas and among different states, Certain Social and Economic groups are more vulnerable to poverty, and Poverty reduction is expected to make better progress in the next ten to fifteen years.
This would be possible mainly due to higher economic growth, increasing stress on universal free elementary education, declining population growth, increasing empowerment of the women and the economically weaker sections of the society.