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Ohio-Specific Benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Ohio-Specific Stimulus Estimates 

  • Medicaid - $2.827 billion over three years
    • State Fiscal Year 2009 - $780.6 million
    • State Fiscal Year 2010 - $1.342 billion
    • State Fiscal Year 2011 - $704.4 million
  • Food Stamps - $756 million over five years
    • 1.2 million people
  • Supplemental Security Income - $147.2 million above current levels (2009)
    • 257,900 additional people
  • Emergency Shelter Grant Program - $66.1 million (2009)
    • 16,000 additional households covered
  • Child Tax Credit (2009)
    • Approximately 623,000 children will be helped
  • Low-Income Home Energy Assistance - $49.9 million
  • Elderly Nutrition Services - $7.2 million over 2 years
  • Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant - $14.4 million over two years
  • Unemployment Insurance
    • 666,416 people will receive an additional $25/week
    • 91,704 people will be granted an extension of benefits through the end of 2009

Infrastructure 

  • Highways and Bridges - $1.036 billion
  • Transit Capital - $150.9 million
    • Urban - $128.5 million
    • Rural - $22.4 million
  • Fixed Guideway Modernization - $24.1 million
    • Will not apply to OH-15
  • Clean Water State Revolving Fund - $326.8 million

Education 

  • Educational Technology State Grants - $36 million over two years
  • Pell Grant - $969.1 million
    • 268,804 recipients
    • $3,605 average per award
  • Head Start - $27.4 million over two years
  • Child Care & Development Block Grant - $68.2 million over two years
  • Education and Training
    • Adult - $23.6 million
    • Youth - $56.7 million
    • Dislocated Worker - $54.4 million
    • Employment Service - $20.3 million 

Other 

  • State Fiscal Stabilization Fund - $2.385 billion over two years
  • Community Services Block Grant - $39 million over two years

*Information Provided By The Office Of Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy, Representing Ohio's 15th Congressional District


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