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Table 1

State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, 10 lowest-spending and highest-spending states

	States	Average share of SLFRF spent	Change in state government employment, Feb 2020–May 2023
Lowest-spending states	Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, South Dakota, Florida, Nebraska, Montana, Alabama	8.4%	-3.6%
Highest-spending states	Minnesota, Alaska, Maryland, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Texas	74.5%	-1.8%

Source: EPI analysis of U.S. Treasury Department SLFRF spending data, Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Current Employment Statistics, Establishment Survey (CES) public data series.

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