Combined, these five states received 34 percent of all federal expenditures. These include housing assistance, excess earned income tax credit and food stamps. The grant awards represent both formula grants and block grants. Formula grants are prescribed by law.
Block grants represent a fixed level of spending for specific projects.
The grant awards also include money spent on project grants such as scholarships, fellowships, training programs and construction programs. Medicaid payments were up 9.1 percent in 2000. The state per capita rankings often differ from the ranking for the states where the most government funds were provided. This is a factor of state populations, the number of federally funded programs in a state and the number of federal workers residing in a state. Population figures used to calculate per capita for the 50 states and all county or county- equivalent areas represent resident population from the census of April 1, 2000.