Formula Grants: Effects of Adjusted Population Counts on Federal Funding to States
HEHS-99-69
Published: Feb 26, 1999. Publicly Released: Mar 02, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the potential effect of using adjusted population counts on the distribution of federal grant funding, focusing on: (1) 25 large formula grant programs; (2) identifying those programs that rely, at least in part, on census data to apportion funding; and (3) for selected programs, analyzing the extent to which funding would shift among states if adjusted population counts were used to apportion funds.
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