Cuomo is using Rockefeller Institute numbers here; they show that from 2015 to 2018 KY received net federal aid of $33,000 for every man, woman, and child in the state 1/
This amounted to 18.6% of Kentucky's GDP. That's comparable to the amount of foreign aid that goes to poor countries in Africa 2/ data.worldbank.org/indicator/dt.o…
I wrote a note on regional inequality last fall; pp. 10-11 discuss the US transfer union and how it leads to the massive subsidization of red states by blue states 3/ gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/…
