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Abstract
Of the $385.2 billion in Federal Government outlays reported by the Community Services Administration for fiscal 1976, $314.5 billion can be traced to individual counties. Over 76 percent of these outlays were made in metropolitan counties. Since the population in metropolitan counties in 1975 comprised 72.8 percent of the U.S. total, per capita Federal outlays were higher in metropolitan areas ($1,555) than in nonmetropolitan areas ($1,271). Regionally, per capita outlays were highest in the West ($1,887) and South ($1,599) and below average in the Northeastern ($1,323) and North Central ($1,192) regions. For all regions, per capita outlays were highest in declining metropolitan counties and lowest in growing nonmetropolitan counties.