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Show National News Summary Government Costs Total expenditures for all units un-its of Government in the United States are expected to be around $56,000,000,000 for 1947, according ac-cording to the Tax Institute. This compares with $104,000,000,000 in 1944, $109 billion in 1945, and $73 billion in 1946 (estimated). Besides the drop in war expenditures expendi-tures from $90,000,000,000 in 1945 to $45 billion in 1946, the tables show a sharp increase in other Federal expenditures, which went up from $6,700,000,-000 $6,700,000,-000 in 1944 to $28,000,.000,000 in 1947. The increase cari be accounted ac-counted for as follows: Increases in interest charges, $2,000,000,-000; $2,000,000,-000; in veterans' expenditures, almost $4,000,000,000; and in tax refunds, almost $3,000,000,000. 1948 Farm Goals Farm production goals for 1948, calling for a continuation of high war-time levels of output, out-put, have been announced by Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture. The goals, which serve as guides to farmers, call for 9,000,000 more acres of cultivated cul-tivated and non-cultivated crops than the 347,000,000 acreage used us-ed to produce this year's near-record near-record total of farm commodities. commodi-ties. The 1948 goals emphasize grains, both bread grains and livestock feed. Veierans A total of 2,013,000 veterans of 1 World War II have quit Govern- - ment-aided school or job-train- ing courses, although only 29,000 have exhausted benefits to which J they are entitled, according to i the VA. While more than 7,000,- j 000 veterans have applied for educational or training benefits j since the aid system was estab- ; lished in 1943, only 4,670,000 j have actually enrolled; of the j enrolled group, 56 per cent are ; still participating. j State Workers Workers in state governments increased 18 per cent, from 726.-000 726.-000 to 859,0000, between April, 1946 and April, 1947, according to a Census Bureau report. School personnel account for about 28 per cent of all State j employees. Monthly earning of State workers averaged $164 in April, 1947, as compared with $112 in April, 1940. Federal Employees Civilian employees in the ex- j ecutive department and agencies of the Federal Government in the continental United States in- creased about 7,300 during Oct. I to a total of 1,773,900 at the beginning be-ginning of November. Of the total, to-tal, 195,400 are employed in i Washington. ri |