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 ...

A per capita cap to federal financing of the Medicaid program would be a fundamental change to how the program is financed. It would put untenable fiscal pressures on state governments, leading to ...

as a share both of GDP and of total government spending (Chart 2). Real per capita spending on education and health rose by 0.7 percent and 1.3 percent a year, respectively. These real spending ...

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 ...

Proposals to cap federal Medicaid funding would put millions of Americans at risk of losing coverage or experiencing cuts to ...

The Trump administration’s many attempts over the past couple of weeks to halt federal spending have met mostly with approval from Republicans on Capitol Hill and outrage from Democrats.

While most high and upper-middle-income countries have a lower share of out-of-pocket spending due to nonprofit schemes, government transfers ... or around $1,400 per capita according to the ...

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

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 ...