Over a third of the United States federal government's revenue comes from the country's four most-populous states, but they often get back less than they contribute. Known as "donor states," 19 states ...

This amounts to about $100,000 per person in a nation with around 337 million people, and debt has become the second greatest government expense, according to the independent outlet Natural News.

A state with a negative balance of payments sends more money to the federal government than it receives. Massachusetts had the lowest balance of payment per capita, according to the report.This ...

House Republicans seeking to thread the needle in Medicaid spending cuts are eyeing “per capita caps,” which would throttle federal funding without technically changing benefits. &… ...

By the numbers: California had the fourth lowest balance of federal spending per capita in 2022 when discounting COVID relief spending at -$3,239, according to a 2024 Rockefeller Institute of ...

The average taxpayer’s piece of the $37-trillion federal debt is about $240,000, or six years of the median income.

WASHINGTON - Wyoming ranks seventh in the amount of money the federal government spends per resident, with a new report showing that the U.S. government spent $8,673 per capita there ...

If states maintain their expansion spending and coverage, a per capita cap on the expansion population could shift $246 billion in costs to states over the next 10 years.

The nation’s poorest state — Mississippi — has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other commonwealth. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot ...

Federal spending, in other words, magnifies the incumbent advantage and gives incumbents a few points on Election Day. We can see this in action. Consider the Associated Press article that ran the ...

But West Virginia’s ranking changes when factoring in per capita balance of payments, with the state increasing in rank to sixth in 2022, or $11,332 per person when federal COVID payments are ...