The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) delivered $350 billion for state, local, territorial and tribal governments “to respond to the COVID-19 emergency and bring back jobs.” They spent much of it on police, prisons, and the courts.
🧵 A @MarshallProj analysis by me, @Weihua_Li1 and @susie_c, searched 43,000 reports that local governments submitted to the Treasury, and discovered that much of #ARP money is being spent on the criminal justice system.
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