Monday Map: State Government Spending Growth, 2000-2010

June 18, 2012

Nick Kasprak

Nick Kasprak

Today’s Monday Map shows the growth of state government spending over the past decade. These percentages show the growth in direct spending between 2000 and 2010, in real dollars per capita (to eliminate the effects of population growth and inflation). Oklahoma leads the pack with a 74% increase in state government spending over ten years; Alaska, whose state government only grew 17% faster than its population, is at the bottom.

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