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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...