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- iHaveNet.com: Economy
by Matthew Bandyk
The Obama stimulus bill is now one year old, and it is as controversial now as it was when it first passed. Last week, in the wake of the anniversary, the
One year later, the picture of where the money is going looks a bit different. That's because nowhere near all of the stimulus dollars have been allocated yet. The federal government has obligated -- or committed to spend -- $334 billion of the $787 billion stimulus. Of that $334 billion, about half -- $179 billion -- has actually been spent in the economy in the form of outlays. The Recovery Act also has put forth $119 billion in tax cuts.
The
Here are the states, ranked by their per capita obligated spending.
1. District of Columbia: $5,170
2. Alaska: $1,718
3. Vermont: $1,320
4. Massachusetts: $1,274
5. Rhode Island: $1,234
6. New York: $1,197
7. North Dakota: $1,164
8. Maine: $1,138
9. Montana: $1,128
10. South Dakota: $1,123
11. Wyoming: $1,099
12. Delaware: $1,086
13. Michigan: $1,073
14. Oregon: $1,046
15. Connecticut: $1,023
16. Indiana: $1,012
17. Hawaii: $1,004
18. Pennsylvania: $992
19. New Jersey: $988
20. Nevada: $984
21. Minnesota: $968
22. Illinois: $953
23. New Mexico: $945
24. Washington: $945
25. California: $942
26. Wisconsin: $937
27. Oklahoma: $922
28. Iowa: $898
29. Ohio: $892
30. Mississippi: $881
31. West Virginia: $879
32. Arizona: $864
33. North Carolina: $863
34. Maryland: $860
35. Tennessee: $858
36. Kentucky: $858
37. South Carolina: $855
38. Missouri: $852
39. Idaho: $841
40. Arkansas: $831
41. New Hampshire: $831
42. Alabama: $828
43. Louisiana: $824
44. Florida: $804
45. Georgia: $804
46. Colorado: $796
47. Kansas: $780
48. Texas: $779
49. Nebraska: $724
50. Utah: $682
51. Virginia: $647
Politics has played some role in deciding which states get a bigger slice of the pie than others. "States where legislators are particularly influential can get a better deal on the infrastructure portion of the stimulus," says Josh Barro, a fellow at the
Another stimulus program that explains why some states have received less money per person is unemployment insurance. The stimulus has offered aid to state unemployment insurance programs but with strings attached: States accepting this money must make permanent changes to expand unemployment insurance benefits. Several states -- especially those with Republican governors, such as Texas -- declined to cooperate because they did not want to go along with these changes.
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The Stimulus: States Getting the Most Money So Far | Matthew Bandyk