Stimulus money didn�t go to the�states hardest hit by the recession. States with higher bankruptcy, foreclosure and poverty rates as well as lower incomes�got significantly less money. And�states that had higher unemployment rates received virtually exactly the same amount of money as states with lower rates.

But there was one group that significantly benefited: unions. �The top 10 states receiving the most stimulus money got more than 70% more money per person than the 10 states that received the least money.� At the same time those states had more than twice the share of their workers represented by unions.

John Lott and Grover Norquist editorial in�Investors� Business Daily.

*Post originally found in the National Center for Policy Analysis’ Health Policy Blog.

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