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Article: Federal spending increases in Kansas
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- April 15, 1999
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State ranks 30th in per capita federal spending.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The federal government spent $13.4 billion in Kansas
last year, an increase of $780 million from the previous year and an
average of more than $5,000 for each person in the state, the Census
Bureau said.
California was first at $161.6 billion and Wyoming last at $2.7
billion.
Kansas ranked 30th among the states with per capita federal
spending of $5,106 during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.
Nationally, the government spent an average of $5,491 per person,
from a high of $8,221 in Virginia to a low of $4,156 in Utah.
Kansans benefited less from federal spending than most of their
Midwestern neighbors. ...