Review of Federal Funding to Florida - Office of Economic ...
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<strong>Office</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Economic</strong> and Demographic Research<br />
Table 4-8: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Energy (pages 82-83)<br />
Table 4-9: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (pages 84-85)<br />
Table 4-10: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (pages 86-87)<br />
Table 4-11: <strong>Federal</strong> Emergency Management Agency (pages 88-89)<br />
Table 4-12: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Health and Human Services (pages 90-91)<br />
Table 4-13: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Homeland Security (pages 92-93)<br />
Table 4-14: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Housing and Urban Development (pages 94-95)<br />
Table 4-15: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Interior (pages 96-97)<br />
Table 4-16: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Justice (pages 98-99)<br />
Table 4-17: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Labor (pages 100-101)<br />
Table 4-18: National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities (pages 102-103)<br />
Table 4-19: Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (pages 104-105)<br />
Table 4-20: Social Security Administration–Supplemental Security Income (pages 106-107)<br />
Table 4-21: State Justice Institute (pages 108-109)<br />
Table 4-22: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Transportation (pages 110-111)<br />
Table 4-23: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> the Treasury (pages 112-113)<br />
Table 4-24: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> Veterans Affairs (pages 114-115)<br />
D. Conclusion<br />
Part Three <strong>of</strong> this report discussed several shortcomings in using a per capita measure <strong>to</strong> evaluate<br />
federal grant expenditures <strong>to</strong> states, and those shortcomings apply here as well. The inherent<br />
assumption when comparing states’ per capita expenditures is that federal grants are distributed<br />
solely on the basis <strong>of</strong> <strong>to</strong>tal population, which is not the case for all individual grant programs. Since<br />
grant funding formulas may incorporate variables other than states’ <strong>to</strong>tal populations, the use <strong>of</strong> a<br />
per capita measure for comparative purposes may not always be appropriate.<br />
However, in spite <strong>of</strong> these caveats, these analyses may provide one measure <strong>of</strong> how well <strong>Florida</strong><br />
fares, relative <strong>to</strong> all other states, in the receipt <strong>of</strong> grant funding by agency after controlling for<br />
population differences among the states. The analyses demonstrate that <strong>Florida</strong>’s per capita<br />
expenditures have been below the national per capita expenditures for the majority <strong>of</strong> federal<br />
agencies, in particular those agencies that provide the majority <strong>of</strong> grant funding <strong>to</strong> states. During<br />
2009, the state’s per capita expenditures were above the national per capita expenditures for only<br />
two <strong>of</strong> the 23 federal agencies (i.e., Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Election Assistance<br />
Commission) that provided grant funding <strong>to</strong> <strong>Florida</strong>, and the combined grant funding provided by<br />
those two agencies accounted for only 0.1 percent <strong>of</strong> <strong>to</strong>tal grant funding provided <strong>to</strong> the state by all<br />
23 agencies. Given the number <strong>of</strong> federal grant programs (i.e., 1,661 currently), additional research<br />
in<strong>to</strong> these programs would need <strong>to</strong> be conducted <strong>to</strong> assess the extent <strong>to</strong> which <strong>Florida</strong>’s receipt <strong>of</strong><br />
funding from individual grant programs could be increased in the future.<br />
68 <strong>Review</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Federal</strong> <strong>Funding</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Florida</strong> in Fiscal Year 2009