Federal $ & The Census

Here are the top 30 federal programs in Fiscal Year 2015 and 11 more of interest to urban readers among 132 line items – roughly $675 billion -- distributed using census data. The information comes from the report, “Uses of Census Bureau Data in Federal Funds Distribution: A New Design for the 21st Century,” prepared by Marisa Hotchkiss and Jessica Phelan for the U.S. Census Bureau and issued in September 2017. The full report is available at www.2.census.gov

Medical Assistance Program (Medicaid) - $311.8 billion

Medicare Part B - $70.3 billion

Highway planning and construction - $38.48 billion

Federal Pell grants - $29.92 billion

National School Lunch program -- $18.92 billion

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - $17.22 billion

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers - $15.76 billion

Title 1 grants to local schools - $14.25 billion

Special Education grants to states - $11.38 billion

Head Start - $8.54 billion

Special Supplemental Nutrition program for Women, Infants, Children - $6.06 billion

Federal Transit formula grants - $5.45 billion

Foster Care Title IV-E - $5.4 billion

Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund - $5.31 billion

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments program - $4.37 billion

State Children’s Health Insurance Program - $4.21 billion

School Breakfasts Program - $4.05 billion

Low-income home energy assistance - $3.39 billion

Hurricane Sandy Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Grants (CDBG-R) - $3.35 billion

Unemployment Insurance - $3.01 billion

Vocational Rehabilitation state grants - $2.93 billion

Adoption Assistance - $2.90 billion

Improving Teacher Quality state grants - $2.32 billion

Crime Victim Assistance - $1.93 billion

Community Development Block Grants /Entitlement Grants - $1.78 billion

Substance Abuse prevention/treatment block grants - $1.72 billion

Social Services block grant - $1.57 billion

Federal Transit Capital Investment grants - $1.49 billion

Career and Technical Ed grants to states - $1.98 billion

WIA Dislocated Workers - $1.01 billion

Still other federal money of interest to urban areas….

Public Housing Capital Fund - $719.15 million

HIV Emergency Relief grants - $645.49 million

Maternal and Child Health block grants to states - $536.17 million

Capital assistance for elderly and persons with disabilities - $432.09 million

Special Education preschool grants - $352.91 million

Emergency Food Assistance - $298.88 million

Emergency Shelter grants - $289.35 million

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS - $174.78 million

Violence Against Women formula grants - $133.02 million

Supportive Housing for the Elderly - $129.85 million

Urban Indian Health Services - $9.61 million