Colo. received $13B in FY2016; census will determine federal spending for next 10 years

A look at fiscal year 2016 can provide valuable insight about what kind of funding is influenced by the census. Colorado received $13,087,705,849 from 55 large federal spending programs guided by 2010 census data in FY2016. Across the country, those programs distributed $883,094,826,042 in that year alone.

In Colorado the program that paid out the most in FY2016 was Medicaid. Because of census data, the state received $5,125,368,000 for Medicaid. Also coming in above the billion-dollar mark were federal direct student loans. Colorado received $1,816,819,681.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program received $728,042,703, and Medicare supplemental medical insurance (Part B) received $786,507,694. Rounding out the top five was highway planning and construction, which received $641,923,739.

Other programs in Colorado that received significant federal funding include Section 8 housing, special education grants, Head Start, adoption assistance, crime victim assistance, water and waste disposal systems for rural communities, National School Lunch Program, low income home energy assistance, WIC and school breakfast program, among many others.

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