Review of Federal Funding to Florida - Office of Economic ...

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Dollar Volume of Direct Loans
Total: $2.1 billion; Rank: 7 th (16 th in 2008)
Per Capita: $115; Rank: 36 th (42 nd in 2008)
Florida Compared to the Most Populous
States
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the
federal direct expenditures (i.e., direct
payments for individuals for retirement and
disability, direct payments for individuals
other than for retirement and disability, grants,
procurement contracts, and salaries and
wages) to the fifty states totaled $3.14 trillion
in 2009, up from $2.70 trillion in 2008. The
combined federal direct expenditures to the
seven most populous states of California,
Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, totaled $1.30 trillion
or 42 percent of the fifty states’ total. The
total federal direct expenditures of the seven
most populous states are as follows:
1. California: $346 billion
2. Texas: $227 billion
3. New York: $195 billion
4. Florida: $176 billion
5. Pennsylvania: $136 billion
6. Illinois: $116 billion
7. Ohio: $108 billion
However, as illustrated below, the states’
respective rankings change when controlling
for population differences. The per capita
federal direct expenditures of these same
seven states are as follows:
1. Pennsylvania: $10,936 (1 st in 2008)
2. New York: $9,978 (2 nd in 2008)
3. Florida: $9,477 (4 th in 2008)
4. California: $9,360 (5 th in 2008)
5. Ohio: $9,354 (6 th in 2008)
6. Texas: $9,164 (3 rd in 2008)
7. Illinois: $8,990 (7 th in 2008)
Florida’s Receipt of Federal Grants
Federal grants continue to be significant
sources of revenue. Among other things, they
are used by state and local governments to
provide necessary infrastructure and services
to their residents. Federal grant expenditures
(i.e., actual outlays) to the fifty states totaled
$532 billion in fiscal year 2009.
Although federal grant obligations to Florida
totaled $32.0 billion in 2009, all those monies
have not yet been expended. Actual federal
grant expenditures to our state and local
governments totaled $22.7 billion, or $1,224
per capita. Florida had the 4 th largest federal
grants expenditure of the fifty states,
unchanged from 2008, and the state ranked
48 th on a per capita basis, down from 46 th .
The grant funding received from six federal
departments (Health and Human Services,
Education, Transportation, Housing and
Urban Development, Agriculture, and
Homeland Security) totaled $21.9 billion and
accounted for 96 percent of all grants
expenditures to Florida. Summaries of these
grant expenditures to Florida, as well as some
of the more well-known program categories
within these departments, are listed below:
Health and Human Services Grants
Total: $13.6 billion; Rank: 5 th (5 th in 2008)
Per Capita: $732; Rank: 46 th (46 th in 2008)
• Administration for Children and
Families
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
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