,Federal Grants To States and Localities Cut Deeply in Fiscal Year 2009 Federal Budget

Federal Grants To States and Localities Cut Deeply in Fiscal Year 2009 Federal Budget


 

Publication Date: February 2008

Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Iris J. Lav; Phillip Oliff

Research Area: Government; Social conditions

Keywords: City budgets; Economic projections; State budgets; Federal budget

Type: Report

Abstract:

Grants to state and local governments have long been an important way in which the federal government supports and administers programs efficiently.  The new budget, however, continues to significantly erode those grants.  This leaves states and localities the option of either curtailing services or increasing their own taxes to compensate for declining federal funds.