FY 2011 Per Capita Federal Spending on Major Grant Programs
Budget Brief 12-01
February 2, 2012
Per
capita federal spending is one measure for states seeking to assess how they
fare in their fiscal relationship with the federal government. This report provides
a per capita analysis of the 200+ federal grant-in-aid programs tracked by FFIS
and included in its grants database. Per capita data are calculated for federal fiscal
years (FYs) 2010 and 2011 using population estimates for July 2010 and July
2011, which were released by the Census Bureau in December 2011.