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November 5th, 2009

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 10:31 am

to see that the District of Columbia received more "stimulus" money, per capita, than any of the fifty states?  In fact, DC got roughly twice the US average per-capita stimulus money, over 40% more than second-place Rhode Island, and 75% more than Michigan, the hardest-hit US state by unemployment rate.

(Michigan's official unemployment is 15.2%; DC's is just over 11% according to the graph, although the article declares it to be 9.9%.)

The chart in that article plots stimulus money per capita against unemployment rate.  As it observes, if stimulus money were parcelled out proportionally to unemployment, most states should cluster along the blue diagonal line on the graph.  In practice, DC is further above that line than any state, by a factor of almost 2:1; and Michigan is more than twice as far below the "equitable" line as DC is above it.

Draw what conclusions you will.