{"id":1318,"date":"2016-02-01T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2023-07-17T19:35:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:35:30","slug":"has-the-amount-of-federal-aid-to-new-york-city-changed-over-the-past-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/2016\/02\/has-the-amount-of-federal-aid-to-new-york-city-changed-over-the-past-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Amount of Federal Aid to New York City Changed Over the Past Five Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the past five years, total federal aid to New York City has declined from $7.9 billion in 2011 to just under $7.0 billion in 2015, a decrease of roughly $933 million, or nearly 12 percent. The change was mainly due to the drop in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act federal stimulus dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the picture changes when stimulus dollars and disaster recovery funding related to Hurricane Sandy and other events are excluded: Federal aid to the city has been relatively flat over the five-year period, although with some spikes in individual sources of aid. Excluding stimulus and disaster-related assistance, federal aid increased from $6.3 billion in 2011 to $6.7 billion in 2012, and then slowly declined to $6.3 billion in 2015. When adjusted for inflation, the $6.3 billion received in 2015 is 6.4 percent, or $403 million, below the aid received in 2011. Federal aid comprised less than 10 percent of the city budget last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"_\/or82hljPYtGGPkhaghir\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"nycbtn53\"><\/div><script>!function(e,i,n,s){var t=\"InfogramEmbeds\",d=e.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement(\"script\");o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\",d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,\"infogram-async\");<\/script>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Federal aid, excluding stimulus and recovery funding, totaled $32.3 billion, or just over 85 percent of total federal aid received over the years 2011 through 2015.<\/li><li>Three city agencies received a combined $22.5 billion, or roughly 70 percent, of federal aid during the five-year period: the Department of Education ($8.4 billion), Human Resources Administration ($7.7 billion), and Administration for Children&#8217;s Services ($6.4 billion).<\/li><li>Three other departments, Housing Preservation and Development, Homeless Services, and Health and Mental Hygiene, also received a significant share of federal aid ($2.4 billion, $1.6 billion, and $1.6 billion, respectively) during the period.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Just five federal grant programs, excluding stimulus and disaster recovery funds, accounted for $16.8 billion, or over half, of the city\u2019s aid from Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/2016\/02\/has-the-amount-of-federal-aid-to-new-york-city-changed-over-the-past-five-years\/table1nycbtn53\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"174\" src=\"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/table1nycbtn53.png\" alt=\"table1nycbtn53\" class=\"wp-image-1334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/table1nycbtn53.png 594w, https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/table1nycbtn53-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The largest source of federal aid to the city is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which provides cash and other assistance to very low-income families. Funding to the city grew from $1.0 billion in 2011 to $1.5 billion in 2013 as the state, which receives the funds from Washington, changed the formula for allocating the funds to localities. Funding then declined to $1.4 billion in 2015.<\/li><li>Title I funding, which supports special programs in schools with large concentrations of students from low-income families, decreased steadily over the five-year period and fell from $833 million in 2011 to $705 million in 2015, a decline of about 15 percent.<\/li><li>Federal aid to the city through the Child Care and Development Block Grant, which subsidizes preschool and school-age child care programs for lower-income families, remained relatively flat over the five-year-period, rising $22 million, or roughtly 5 percent from 2011 through 2015.<\/li><li>Section 8 funding, which provides rental assistance to low-income households, grew from $419 million in 2011 to $437 million in 2015, an increase of about 4 percent. (A separate Section 8 grant of about $1 billion annually goes to the New York City Housing Authority but does not flow through the city budget.)<\/li><li>While most federal Medicaid spending in the city flows directly from the state to reimburse health care providers, some federal Medicaid dollars\u2014such as support for school-based health centers\u2014become part of the city budget. Medicaid funding in the city budget went from $349 million in 2011 to $209 million in 2015, a decline of 40 percent. The amount of federal Medicaid funds received by the city each year is partially determined by the number of claims the city files for reimbursement.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Prepared by&nbsp;Frank Posillico and Ana Maria Ventura<br><em>&nbsp;New York City Independent Budget Office<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Print version available <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/23E1oZZ\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/\">New York City By The Numbers<\/a><\/td><td>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibo.nyc.ny.us\/\">IBO Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past five years, total federal aid to New York City has declined from $7.9 billion in 2011 to just under $7.0 billion in 2015, a decrease of roughly $933 million, or nearly 12 percent. The change was mainly due to the drop in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act federal stimulus dollars. But the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/2016\/02\/has-the-amount-of-federal-aid-to-new-york-city-changed-over-the-past-five-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Has the Amount of Federal Aid to New York City Changed Over the Past Five Years?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}