federal monies

Congress collecting federal tax revenues and redistributing them to states to address national concerns is known as...

• Devolution

• Mandates

• revenue sharing

federal funds given to state and local governments for specific projects

• Grants-in-aid

• Categorical grants

• Devolution

a federal grant that can only be used for a specific purpose, or category, of state and local spending; these grants usually require that the state contribute money in addition to the national money

• Grants-in-aid

• Block grants

• Devolution

• Categorical grants

federal grants given to state and local governments for broad purposes, such as welfare, community development, public health, or education

• Categorical grants

• Block grants

• Grants-in-aid

regulations that the national government imposes on state and local governments

• Categorical grants

• Block grants

• Federal mandates

Benefit to states of block grants

• Get to choose how to allocate funds

• can use for absolutely whatever

• gives governors a fat bonus check

• the federal government has absolute control of fund usage

why might states not like unfunded mandates

• no money and have to make changes

• get some money but don't get enough

• have to use money a certain way

Match the following

• Money and other resources given by the federal government to states to pay for local activities

• Federal Mandates

• federal grants given to states for more general purposes or for broad policy areas

• Unfunded mandates

• Federal grants for specific purposes, such as building an airport or disaster relief

• Block Grants

• Money given to states with strings attached

• Grants-In-Aid

• mandates that don’t come with money and are often contentious

• Categorical Grants

Grants that can only be used for a specific purpose

• PELL grants

• block grants

• mandates

• categorical grants

Funds given to the states by the national government with demands of carrying out certain policies

• declarations

• supplementary clauses

• categorical grants

• mandates