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	<p class="index-sub-header">Data visualizations to help you understand government spending.</p>
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			<h4>Federal Account Explorer</h4>
			<h2><a href="federal-account-explorer.html">Discover the federal government’s bank accounts</a></h2>
			<p>The government has almost 2,000 bank accounts that it uses to spend money. Use this interactive tree-style visualization to explore these accounts and see how much money has been spent.</p>
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			<h4>Contract Explorer</h4>
			<h2><a href="contract-explorer.html">Who receives federal contracts?</a></h2>
			<p>The federal government spends about $500 billion each year on contracts -- that's roughly the size of Sweden's economy. Learn more about contract recipients and what agencies receive from these contracts.</p>
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			<h4>Homelessness Analysis</h4>
			<h2><a href="homelessness-analysis.html">Explore federal programs that address homelessness</a></h2>
			<p>On a single night in 2016, more than 500,000 people experienced homelessness in the United States. This visualization uses grant data to show the federal government's approach to addressing homelessness.</p>
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			<h4>Budget Function</h4>
			<h2><a href="budget-function.html">See how the government categorizes its purchases</a></h2>
			<p>Data from USAspending.gov allows you to connect two different ways the government categorizes spending: what it pays for and what it's trying to achieve with those purchases. Use this visualization to explore broad spending categories.</p>
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			<h4>Federal Employees</h4>
			<h2><a href="federal-employees.html">Who works in government?</h2></a>
			<p>There are hundreds of types of federal employees - special agents, park rangers, and medical staff who care for veterans, to name just a few - who live all across the United States. Use this visualization to explore federal employees’ occupations, salaries, and locations.</p>
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			<h4>Competition in Contracting</h4>
			<h2><a href="competition-in-contracting.html">How often do federal agencies compete contracts?</h2></a>
			<p>The federal government is required to use competition when issuing contracts for goods and services, with a few exceptions.  See which federal agencies employ competitive practices most frequently with this analysis.</p>
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