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California Slated to Receive More Than $32 Billion in Recovery Funds

January 28, 2009

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Would Bring Vital Funds to CA

January 28, 2009

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Today, California Democratic CongressionalDelegation (CDCD) Chair Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) released thefollowing funding analysis of H.R. 1, the American Recovery andReinvestment Act of 2009. The bill, which the House of Representativespassed today on a 244 to 188 vote, will deliver much needed federalassistance to California.

"With California's unemployment rate soaring to 9.3 percent and noend in sight to our economic woes, this bill will give our state somehelp," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren. "This package is a step in the longjourney to economic recovery. It makes vital and necessary improvementsin our infrastructure, schools, law enforcement, health care, andsustainable energy. It will also help put thousands of Californiansback to work and help jump start our local economies."

California will receive more than $32 billion in economic recovery funding under ARRA

State Fiscal Stabilization Fund: $7,854,800,000

Title I $1,591,028,000

IDEA $1,422,484,000

Education Technology $106,715,000

Education Construction $2,430,042,000

Head Start $82,495,000

Child Care & Development $220,273,000

Employment Training

Adult $80,927,000

Youth $188,507,000

Dislocated Worker $179,993,000

Employment Services $58,411,000

Community Services Block Grant $89,157,000

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance $44,818,000

Elderly Nutritional Services $21,702,000

Preventative Health and Services $20,634,000

Byrne Justice Assistance Grant $330,312,000

Infrastructure Investment

Highway and Bridges $2,796,972,000

Transit Capital $950,838,000

Fixed Guideway Modernization $294,322,000

Clean Water SRF $415,157,000

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance $1,466,000,000

(Formerly Food Stamps Program)

Supplemental Security Income $710,700,000

Emergency Shelter Grant Program $190,000,000

Medicaid Assistance $11,069,212,000

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$32,615,499,000

Additionally:

  • 12.3 million California workers will benefit from a new Making Work Pay Credit of up to $500 per worker

  • Almost 2 million children will benefit from the Child Tax Credit Provision

  • Over 2.3 million jobless workers will benefit from unemployment insurance provisions

  • 744,000 California students will benefit from an increase in the Federal Pell Grant Program


[1]Numbers complied from state-by-state data released by the HouseAppropriations Committee, House Transportation and InfrastructureCommittee, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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