Figures are from 2011 (click here). Louisiana is only second to Alabama in the amounts of monies received from the federal government in relation to their overall state's income.
So, let me get this right. Louisiana has some of the largest oil facilities in the country and ranks among the most impoverished people relying on federal monies to fund it's state government.
Delaware has the lowest percentage amount of federal dollars to their state treasury. That is so strange. I would expect a long standing Senator like Joe Biden and then Vice President to have higher and higher amounts of federal dollars in their state treasury. It gets even stranger to realize the GDP for Delaware is 62.703 billion (click here) US per year and Louisiana's GDP is 253.576 billion (click here) US per year as of 2013.
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