States in the Lower Mississippi River Basin have received more than $31.3 billion in federal public recovery assistance ...

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. The key ...

The plans could generate big savings, but they’re vexing Republican lawmakers — many of them former governors and state ...

the state’s smallest incorporated municipality, the village of Big Falls in Waupaca County, ended up with the largest total per capita aid: $1,040 for each of its 58 residents. Rocco’s analysis cites ...

Disaster declarations for Kentucky were also denied during the Biden administration after severe flooding and storms in 2023 ...

In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump turned down half the requests for major disaster aid ... state. That joint assessment put costs at more than twice the $1.89 per-capita threshold ...

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Soon after the Legislature overhauled local government funding in 2023, shared revenue, the state’s primary local ... that were getting less aid per capita under the old shared revenue formula ...

While Milwaukee’s per capita payment was $416, Madison’s $28 was the state’s third-lowest ... by other scholars who found that federal aid formulas “offer lawmakers a means of concealing ...