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Analyses across news outlets and research groups show that on balance wealthier, Democratic-leaning “blue” states tend to send more federal tax dollars to Washington than they receive back in programm...
Blue states do contribute a disproportionate share of federal tax receipts relative to red states, with several analyses reporting that states that vote Democrat provided nearly 60% of federal revenue...
Blue states do supply a disproportionate share of federal tax revenue—large, high-income states such as California, New York and Massachusetts account for a big slice of collections—while many lower‑i...
The available analyses do not provide a definitive ranked list of U.S. cities by , but they offer partial and sometimes conflicting indicators: a MoneyGeek calculation ranks cities by per-capita crime...
Most recent public analyses show that several Republican‑leaning (“red”) states receive , with consistent names including Alaska, New Mexico and Wyoming, and other red states such as West Virginia, Mi...
Blue-leaning states collectively than red-leaning states and many analyses find a substantial net fiscal flow from blue to red states, though the magnitude and interpretation vary by methodology and y...
National crime rates fell to multi‑decade lows in 2024, with violent crime roughly half of its 1991 peak and the homicide rate around 5.0 per 100,000 in 2024 . State‑level “safest” rankings highlight ...
If enhanced ACA premium tax credits expire at the end of 2025, analysts and federal agencies project big, uneven impacts: average marketplace premium payments would rise roughly 114% (about $1,016 ann...
About 23–24 million people were enrolled in ACA Marketplace plans in 2025, a dramatic rise from roughly 10–16 million earlier in the decade, and expansions in subsidies helped drive that growth . Avai...
Benchmark (second-lowest-cost) silver premiums rose modestly in 2025—about 4% on average—while insurer filings and analyses show much larger gross premium increases into 2026 (reports range from ~18% ...
Official, government and major nonprofit tools exist to estimate ACA (Marketplace) premiums and subsidies: HealthCare.gov provides an official plan-and-price preview for your ZIP code and the IRS/TAS ...
State choices on Medicaid expansion materially shape who relies on the ACA Marketplace and how vulnerable plan pricing and coverage will be to the subsidy changes taking effect in 2026: non‑expansion ...
Insurers’ 2026 filings show big increases: across the ACA Marketplaces insurers are proposing median gross premium hikes around 18% and average increases as high as 26% (with many filings clustered be...
Available public datasets and analyses show that “least federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid” is usually reported as a state-level ratio — often called “return on taxes paid” or “balance ...
Virginia emerges as the standout “blue” state that receives the most federal funds per capita (highest net federal funding per resident at $10,301), while many high-profile blue states such as Califor...
Three principal, publicly accessible data sources underpin most analyses of federal taxes paid and federal spending received by state: the U.S. Treasury’s FiscalData (including the Monthly Treasury St...
Authoritative, per-capita federal funding by state for 2024 and 2025 can be constructed from several complementary data sources: federal raw spending portals and grant databases, state-focused aggrega...
Across multiple recent analyses, states that trend Democratic (“blue”) generally send more federal tax dollars per capita into Washington while states that trend Republican (“red”) tend to receive mor...
Federal funding per capita varies widely across the United States depending on the measure used — direct federal grants, total federal transfers, or “net” receipts after subtracting federal taxes — wi...
An examination of the available reporting shows no simple yes-or-no answer: on Medicaid, blue states on average spend and enroll more per capita largely because they adopted the ACA Medicaid expansion...