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U.S. education spending

Federal, state, and local governments funded nearly all U.S. education spending in 2023, with state and local governments providing the majority of the funding

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Feb 5, 2026

urban vs rural funding

skews heavily toward metropolitan areas in raw dollars—roughly $306 billion to metro versus $62 billion to nonmetro in one recent aggregation—yet per-capita gaps are smaller and program composition di...

Jan 8, 2026

Which states received the lowest federal funding per capita in 2024?

Two separate concepts are conflated in public discussion: “federal funding per capita” (the dollars a state receives from federal grants and programs per resident) and the “balance of payments” or net...