What Each American's Share of the National Debt Is:
"Today, on March 16, the debt limit returned at $18.1 trillion in total national debt.
The largest share of this debt—$13 trillion—comes out to $41,000 for every individual living in the U.S. today.
This debt is called the public debt, which means that the government has sold this debt in credit markets to investors in the U.S. and abroad, including China, Japan and European nation countries. The remaining $5 trillion of national debt are debt the government has borrowed from dedicated trust funds, like the Social Security trust fund.
Children born in the U.S. this year would see their share of the public debt burden grow by more than $100,000, to top $142,000, by the time they graduate from college if Congress fails to solve the spending and debt crisis."
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