Bridge to a little more than nowhere

[Janet Alexander]

At 11:41 AM 11/10/2005 -0600, Barksdale, Yvette wrote:

>2) Moving forward to today, what about states who have large 
>concentrations of poor people who need a lot of services, but don't 
>generate enough income for the state to adequately provide for 
>them.  Isn't there a federal role there?


Why, certainly.  The same article in which I first saw the graph reproduced 
in Jerry O'Neil's post noted that for every $1.00 in federal taxes paid by 
Alaskans, the state gets back $1.89.  Oops, maybe the problem is that this 
Congress doesn't put aiding poor people who need services very high on its 
priority list.

         Janet Alexander
         Stanford Law School


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