By Jane Sasseen

Carving the Pie

President Barack Obama's $819 billion spending plan to restart the U.S. economy passed the House on Jan. 28, and now moves on to the Senate. But how would those dollars be spread around? The Center for American Progress, a think tank that has provided a lot of the research—and the personnel—for Obama's policy initiatives, produced a state-by-state estimate of the spending in the House of Representatives' version of the stimulus bill. Not all the spending could be tallied, but the Center's estimates give a good idea of where much of the money would go. (A spreadsheet with the raw data, as well as a full description of their methodology are both available from the Center's Web site.)

The following slides (arranged alphabetically) show the spending allocated to each state on a total and per-capita basis, and they break out separately the amount of "Make Work Pay" personal tax credit dollars ($500 for individuals, $1,000 for families) going to each state.