A Brief History of Federal Transfers to the States

Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Thomas Savidge

“This explainer traces the evolving, mutually dependent relationship between the federal government and the states through four pivotal eras of fiscal transfers: the Antebellum Land Grants, the Civil War, the New Deal, and the Great Society.” (02/24/26)

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