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Originally Posted by pj3000
Right, but those billions are dispersed geographically, based on urban-rural designation and core-based statistical areas, to states and muncipalities. Not to MSAs or CSAs as a whole, which very often spread across state lines.
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Generally yes, but the threshold for a lot of these grants, especially HUD and DOT is based on being in MSAs of a certain size.
Here's an example of a grant to community newspapers, for example:
There are hundreds of grants within the legislative canon that have stipulations like that. So you can think of these MSA definitions as the weed-out course. Then, the formula grant doles out to cities, counties, state. A city within an MSA of 100,000 people unlocks far more Federal goodies than a city in an MSA of 97,842.
Another one: