A recent report examined at “the flow of federal funding” into Florida, at the county level, from “24 programs, totaling more than $20.80 billion in federal spending on economic development, education, health, housing, infrastructure, and Medicaid and Medicare in the state of Florida.”
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) report noted that the group zeroed in on the state because Florida was “one of six states identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as having a significant undercount in the 2020 Census.”
POGO “produced a fact sheet for every county in Florida, breaking down the spending for 24 census-guided programs” and encouraged “advocates to use the fact sheets and data from this report to make the case for a complete count in 2030.”
- Census Matters: How Florida’s 2020 Census Undercount Affects County-Level Funding. Project on Government Oversight. February 11, 2026. https://www.pogo.org/reports/census-matters-how-floridas-2020-census-undercount-affects-county-level-funding
