Stimulus Checks: Who Gets What?

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by Daveda Gruber:
On Thursday afternoon President Biden signed a $1.9 Trillion coronavirus relief bill into law but all the money doesn’t go to the states equally.
Hundreds of billions will go to states and local governments. The states receiving more than one quarter of the aid are New York, Texas and California.
The bill in question is called “The American Rescue Plan” includes:
$195.3 billion to state governments and Washington
$130.2 billion for local governments
$20 billion would be given to federally recognized tribal governments
$4.5 billion to U.S. territories
The money is distributed this way. States with high number of unemployment will be given more funding rather than states with a higher population.
States with Republican governors are not happy because they have better jobless rates. Many of these states did not go or stay in lock-down.
Democrat run states implemented strict lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus.
California, which is the state with the highest population, will receive the most money, $42.3 billion that includes $26.2 billion for its state government and $14.6 billion across local governments.
The second most populated state, Texas, will receive the second-highest amount of money. It will get $27.3 billion in funding.
New York would receive the third-highest amount of money which comes in at $23.5 billion.
Florida is the third-largest state by population but would receive $17.3 billion, which is the fourth highest amount of money among states.
The argument between the GOP and Democrats is calculating the aid using unemployment levels rather than population.
Georgia, a GOP-led state, would collect $1.3 billion less under this formula. But it’s not just Republican states that would receive less money. Virginia would also receive about 14% less aid under the current formula.
Needless to say, Republican led states are calling the bill a win for blue states.
Federal stimulus money, which includes the $600 a week unemployment supplement, played a crucial role in keeping states’ revenues intact.
Here is what each state gets:
Alabama: $4.04 billion
Alaska: $1.36 billion
Arizona: $7.63 billion
Arkansas: $2.81 billion
California: $42.63 billion
Colorado: $6.07 billion
Connecticut: $4.35 billion
Delaware: $1.36 billion
District of Columbia: $1.62 billion
Florida: $17.62 billion
Georgia: $8.40 billion
Hawaii: $2.27 billion
Idaho: $1.89 billion
Illinois: $13.71 billion
Indiana: $5.86 billion
Iowa: $2.69 billion
Kansas: $2.72 billion
Kentucky: $4.24 billion
Louisiana: $5.19 billion
Maine: $1.65 billion
Maryland: $6.36 billion
Massachusetts: $8.10 billion
Michigan: $10.31 billion
Minnesota: $4.88 billion
Mississippi: $2.90 billion
Missouri: $5.48 billion
Montana: $1.37 billion
Nebraska: $1.77 billion
Nevada: $4.12 billion
New Hampshire: $1.54 billion
New Jersey: $10.19 billion
New Mexico: $2.46 billion
New York: $23.80 billion
North Carolina: $8.94 billion
North Dakota: $1.36 billion
Ohio: $11.24 billion
Oklahoma: $3.65 billion
Oregon: $4.26 billion
Pennsylvania: $13.72 billion
Rhode Island: $1.78 billion
South Carolina: $3.87 billion
South Dakota: $1.37 billion
Tennessee: $6.31 billion
Texas: $27.62 billion
Utah: $2.74 billion
Vermont: $1.36 billion
Virginia: $6.88 billion
Washington: $7.10 billion
West Virginia: $2.06 billion
Wisconsin: $5.71 billion
Wyoming: $1.36 billion
According to a JPMorgan survey that was published at the end of January, the majority of states actually ended up collecting nearly as much revenue in 2020 as they did the previous year.
The analysis shows that twenty-one states saw positive revenue growth compared with last year.
Personally, I’d give full credit to President Trump for the country not going into a complete recession in 2020 but somehow Biden will take credit for a lot of things that only happened or didn’t happen because of Trump.