How Has Federal Spending on State and Local Grants Changed Over the Last 57 Years?

Route Fifty: Tucked within the materials the White House released last week with President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal are figures showing how federal grants to state and local governments have changed over the last half-century.

The numbers illustrate how grants going to health programs, specifically Medicaid, have skyrocketed since 1960.

Inflation-adjusted spending on grants for other areas, like transportation and community development, have grown much slower during that time, or fluctuated up and down.

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