State by State Stimulus Plan Analysis

The American Progress.org is reporting on the House and Senate version of the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act. They are reporting on the scale and breadth necessary to begin tackling the economic chaos that President Barack Obama has inherited from former President George W. Bush. The various spending programs and tax cuts contained in the bills will help communities across the entire nation. These maps show state-by-state allocations for the aspects of the plan for which we could establish where the money is going. This constitutes 66 percent of the total cost of the package for the House plan and 68 percent for the Senate plan. The maps also show the proportion of the funds that will help each state balance their budgets rather than providing additional funding for specific programs.

These state and local funds include direct tax cuts for working families; increased unemployment insurance and food stamps to help those most in need; new funding to equip the education system for the 21st century; additional funds for existing clean energy programs; state-level infrastructure projects; and assistance that is necessary to protect vital services such as Medicaid. More HERE

Who is getting the money? The Stimulus Plan - State by State

Earlier this week the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, estimated how much money in the House of Representatives’ $825 billion Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act (passed yesterday) would go to each state.

Today, Nicholas Beaudrot, blogging for The American Prospect, used those estimates to calculate how many dollars per capita would go to each state:

By this analysis, Rhode Island — which in December had the second highest unemployment rate of any state, at 10 percent — gets the most money per person. Utah gets the least amount of money per capita; by comparison, the state had a relatively low unemployment rate of 4.3 percent. (Alaska and Hawaii seem to have been left out of the calculations.)