The States That Received The Most Federal Aid: 24/7 Wall Street

The US Census came out with its annual report, the "Consolidated Federal Funds Report for Fiscal Year 2009: State and Country Areas" on how much the federal government spends on the 307,006,550 citizens who lived in America at the end of 2009. The state that received the most money per person was Alaska-- $20,351. The state which received the least per person was Nevada-- only $7.148.

The total federal domestic spending in the government's last fiscal year was $3.2 trillion. That was up 16% from the previous year, almost entirely because of the government's stimulus package, set up to ameliorate the effects of the recession. This was the greatest increase since 1983 which also occurred at the end of a deep and long recession.

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