DHHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)

This study was conducted for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS. It addresses how a state’s fiscal capacity affects its spending on social welfare, how states differ in their "packaging" of services for low-income populations, how economic conditions affect state spending on social welfare, and how the poorest states have adjusted to their relative economic austerity. The study also looks at factors in addition to fiscal capacity and federal grants that might influence state spending, including state needs for social welfare spending, as measured by poverty and unemployment rates and political and institutional factors, including state budget processes. .

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