LANSING – Michigan ranked 39th overall in per capita federal spending in 2009, according to a report from the U.S. Census, with overall spending about $1,000 less than the national average.
With the effort to fight an economic slowdown, federal spending in the nation jumped by 16 percent in 2009 to more than $3.2 trillion. It was the biggest annual increase in federal spending since records dealing with per capita spending were kept by the Census Bureau beginning in 1983.
That averages to $10,548 per person, the Census Bureau said, but in Michigan the actual per capita amount spent was closer to $9,500.
When all U.S. spending in the state, including Social Security, education funding, economic stimulus, defense spending and anything else is added up, the federal government spent $92 billion in Michigan.
That figure is nearly $9 billion more than was spent in 2008. It is almost exactly twice what the federal government spent in the state in 2000.
But the per capita amount spent in the state is well less than half the $20,351 spent per capita in Alaska.
Virginia, where much of the federal government operations are headquartered, had the second highest amount spent per capita at $19,734.
Nevada, which geographically has large sections of land owned by the U.S. government, saw the lowest amount spent per capita at $7,148.
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