Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

Rhode Island

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U.S. Rhode Island
Population 308,745,538 1,052,567
Total recovery funding $522,082,377,600 $2,247,541,718
Funding per Capita $1,691 $2,135
Unemployment
7/2008
6.2
8.1
7/2009
+3.6
9.8
+3.6
11.7
7/2010
-0.2
9.6
+0.3
12.0
7/2011
-0.6
9.0
-0.2
11.8
7/2012
-0.9
8.1
-0.6
11.2
Unemployment Rate, 7/08 – 7/12

Funding by Federal Agency and Department

Health and Human Services, Department of $732,010,117
Education, Department of $416,269,530
Transportation, Department of $233,775,754
Small Business Administration $159,611,107
Agriculture, Department of $156,820,073
Employment and Training Administration $131,962,265
Housing and Urban Development, Department of $93,176,306
Energy, Department of $77,525,372
Social Security Administration $52,120,000
Environmental Protection Agency $50,642,501
Commerce, Department of $43,513,338
National Science Foundation $26,177,481
Justice, Department of $20,358,295
Department of Veterans Affairs $12,850,502
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $10,468,498
Army, Department of $8,753,945
General Services Administration $7,949,149
Homeland Security, Department of $7,291,745
Navy, Department of $3,296,558
Independent Agencies $1,326,808
Interior, Department of $641,268
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities $441,500
Congress, generally, no additional specification available $59,793

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This site was updated in September 2012. It includes recipient-reported data through the second quarter of 2012, which was released in July 2012.

Important: This interactive database is not kept up-to-date and should be treated as a historical snapshot. As records may have changed since we stopped making updates, researchers and consultants wishing to use the data should check against original sources for accuracy before using any data published here.

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Counties

Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

Stimulus Funds Unemployment Rate
Name Total Per Capita 2009 2010 2011 2012
Bristol $27,045,043 $542 10.5 10.4 10.1 9.4
Kent $142,520,122 $858 11.1 11.9 11.2 10.5
Newport $80,610,065 $973 9.5 10.2 9.6 8.9
Providence $1,760,127,463 $2,807 12.9 13.0 13.0 12.3
Washington $237,239,025 $1,868 8.9 9.6 9.3 9.0