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Volume 8: Issue 4
Federal Aid to the States
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In recent years, members of Congress have inserted thousands of pork-barrel spending projects into bills to reward interests in their home states. But such parochial pork is only a small part of a broader problem of rising federal spending on traditional state and local activities....