Congressional Republicans may seek to drastically cut Medicaid by imposing per capita caps, which would place a hard cap on per-person federal Medicaid spending. At a time when people across ...

On average, education and health spending has been increasing in the 118 countries as a group, as a share both of GDP and of total government spending (Chart 2). Real per capita spending on education ...

The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal ...

In fact, among affluent nations, the U.S. has the third-highest level of per capita government social-welfare spending. This is striking given that government spending in the U.S. is more tightly ...

A new report from the state legislature’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shows how Illinois stacks ...

Such figures are off the charts: Consider, for instance, that the Empire State’s per capita spending as of 2022 — $15,368 — was higher than every other state except Alaska, 50% higher than ...

there is a considerable increase in public health spending, rising from INR 465 per capita in 2004-05 to INR 2018 per capita in 2021-22, indicating a strengthening of government investment in ...

Police spending per capita, however, has increased by 46 percent nationally — and in some cities, by far more. “The perception was that the police have a direct relationship with crime ...

However, after a surge in the early pandemic years the average per capita government spending on health in all country income groups fell in 2022 from 2021.