The economic benefits from hunting are immense. It not only helps conservation, but is also a source that has created over 700,000 jobs across the United States. There are studies, which indicate that the 14 million American hunters spend over 22 billion dollars annually. When economists crunched these figures to access the economic multiplier effects, it was found that hunting had an overall impact upon the US economy to the tune of nearly 61 billion dollars adding approx 1.4 billion to the state tax revenues and nearly 1.7 billion in federal income taxes. It created over 416 billion dollars in household income by way of salaries and wages.

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