Consider the Los Angeles Unified School District. Today, its reserves stand at $6.4 billion, nearly 60 percent of its 2024 ...

As a share of total spending, welfare spending has risen from 13.4% of state and local budgets at the start of the millennium to 18.8% in 2019. But even on a per capita basis, spending is up nearly ...

Thirty-one states, plus the District of Columbia, received more than they paid in. New Mexico, for example, sent around $12.4 ...