Tuesday, January 24, 2012

State Dependency on the Federal Government

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/state-dependency-on-the-federal-government
As the following charts shows, total state spending continued to increase during the economic downturn because the federal government picked up the slack.
Note that the federal share of total state spending went from 25.7 percent in 2001 to 34.1 percent in 2011.

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