Montana received $3 billion from 55 federal programs that used census data in 2016 Medicare, making up the biggest chunk and in 2017, it was 5% of personal income. Research Professor Andrew Reamer notes if communities were undercounted in the 2020 Census and the state gets less money as a result the funds don’t go back to the Treasury. They ar...
Economist Breaks Down Census Impact On Montana Incomes
States receive $1.5 trillion from programs guided by census data each year, according to a George Washington University study. In Montana, those programs made up more than 12% of personal income in 2017. The study’s author Andrew Reamer says that means states like Montana had a lot at stake in the recent 2020 Census.