The national wage distribution is shown below. To overlay local salaries for an Automotive Service Technician or Mechanic, please select your state.
The Johnson Debt Default Act of 1934 is a U.S. law prohibiting future loans to nations that have defaulted on repayment of previous loans to the U.S. This law came about following the collapse of the international financial situation created by the Dawes Plan and subsequently modified by the Young Plan as a result of the Great Depression.
The inflation-adjusted debt (seventh) column is simply the public debt expressed in 1983 dollars. The deficit (eighth) column is the difference between one year's inflation-adjusted debt and the previous year's (annualized in years that for various reasons were longer or shorter than 12 months). I display this both as a number and as a bar-graph.