The Project Blog features a succession of posts about the research project as it unfolds. The series captures how we’re tracking how governments are spending their American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds and how ARPA is affecting city governments’ investments in Community Violence Interventions (CVIs). In addition to detailing our research, we hope the blogs are useful to others interested in examining how governments are using their ARPA aid.
Note: Blog entries reflect our thinking at the time they were written. Our approach has shifted as we’ve learned more about CVIs and observed governments’ actual spending patterns. For example, we no longer track community violence intervention and community violence prevention as separate categories. We have noted where our thinking has substantially changed in the relevant posts.
Recent Posts
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What the First Batch of Treasury Department Reports Tells Us About How Governments are Using Their ARPA Money
In June 2022, The Treasury Department released data offering a first glimpse at how recipients are spending the $350 billion Congress allocated to them as part of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Program (SLFRF). In this blog post, we provide an overview of the broad spending patterns it revealed.
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Following the Money: Notes on the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund
The creation of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Relief Fund (SLFRF) program is the largest one-time transfer of multipurpose federal funds to state and local governments in a generation. In this post, we describe how state and local recipients of SLFRF dollars can allocate their funding and the resources available for tracking these funds.
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Are ARPA funds for states and localities being spent successfully?
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was a historically important response to a massive economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the unprecedented nature of the program––and the unprecedented problems it was designed to respond to––how will we know if the program has been a success?
How are cities spending ARPA funds to address violent crime 