How did a once-small federal government come to control a third of state budgets and shape everyday life across the country? Host Paul Mueller talks with AIER scholars Tom Savidge and Dave Hebert about the history of federal funding to states—from the Founding through the Great Society—and how Washington gradually became the dominant force in American governance.
As the saying goes, he who pays the piper calls the tune. Listen in to discover the real impact of federal dollars on state decision-making.