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Alaska Leads Nation in Per Capita Federal Assistance

Fiscal year 2008 was the first year for which there was a complete listing of all earmarks contained in all appropriation bills. That information was loaded into several databases, including the one developed by Taxpayers for Common Sense.

According to that data, the average state got about $50 per person in earmarked funds in 2008.

Alaska got $506 per person, about 10 times the national average. Wasilla between 2000 and 2003 (While Sarah Palin was Mayor) was getting well over $1,000 per person, twice the Alaska state average in 2008.

This isn't the kind of change we need in Washington...