CRAG Special Edition: more Data Sources

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This special edition of CRAG is a collection of sites to find data. It's mainly for your research.
This list gives a few sources of local and state information, as well as a few news articles, and questions.

1. Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)
CBPP is a user-friendly source for big-picture budget topics, including projecting impacts of policies. It has some great fact sheets on states, and some data by congressional district, which could be especially useful for the Bergman town hall tomorrow. These links are a mixture of data tables and articles that include data.

• 40% of Michigan's spending comes from federal sources. Congressional Republican Proposals Would Shift Large Costs to States: https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/president-trump-congressional-republican-proposals-would-shift-large
• Medicaid
  • Risk of losing Medicaid coverage because of work requirements, by congressional district: https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/36-million-people-at-risk-of-having-health-coverage-taken-away-by-medicaid-work
  • Number of people using Medicaid and CHIP, by congressional district: https://apps.cbpp.org/program\_participation/#table/374/medicaid-chip---enrollment-by-age
  • More on Medicaid: https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/congressional-republicans-cant-cut-medicaid-by-hundreds-of-billions-without-hurting
• Earned income tax credit and Refundable Child Tax Credit, by congressional district: https://apps.cbpp.org/program\_participation/#table/364/eitc-and-ctc-claims

CBPP Fact sheets (downloadable)

• Rental assistance, by state: https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/federal-rental-assistance-fact-sheets#MI
• SNAP, by state: https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets#Michigan

Federal workers by congressional district (CAP): https://www.americanprogress.org/article/thousands-of-workers-in-each-congressional-district-could-lose-their-jobs-to-doge/
2. Census dataCensus data: Heaps of data here, down to local levels.

• https://data.census.gov/
• MI-01 congressional district overview: https://data.census.gov/profile/Congressional\_District\_1\_(119th\_Congress),\_Michigan?g=500XX00US2601
• Or search the 3000 MI-01 tables (e.g. employment, housing, health, SNAP, income, etc): https://data.census.gov/table?q=employment&g=500XX00US2601

3. Local budgets (counties, townships, etc)https://treas-secure.state.mi.us/DocumentSearch. For federal funding to local counties and townships select F65 under "document group".
4. Other random sources; please share others.

• Education
  • https://www.americanprogress.org/article/department-of-education-staff-cuts-will-harm-americas-children-and-schools/
  • State of Michigan and MEA join lawsuit
  • Do local schools get funding from the Rural Education Achievement Program?
• Tourism
  • https://www.michigan.org/industry/researchandreports
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/03/10/canada-travel-boycott-4-billion-loss/
• Food
  • Carol M. is pulling together some great data on school meal programs from the USDA.
• Parks and natural resources
  • Frank F. has complied some good data on our local national parks.

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Here's a bit of census data for MI-01. (Pre-redistricting data; MI-01 has expanded.)
Source
Total workers: 343,537

• Private for-profit wage and salary workers: 231,003
  • Employee of private company workers 215,688
  • Self-employed in own incorporated business workers 15,315
• Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers 35,737
• Local government workers 26,960
• State government workers 15,098
• Federal government workers 10,172
• Self-employed in own not incorporated business workers 23,965
• Unpaid family workers 602

I find it interesting that in our region more than twice as many people work for local government than federal government. Government employees are 15% of the total workforce; federal employees are about 3%. On another table I found that 45% of government workers are involved in "Educational services, and health care and social assistance".
Several people have started researching local data. I'd love to start a library of short summaries (briefing papers) on various local issues.
Please let me know what you find! I am not an expert in these tools, let's learn together.
Thanks for all your support
Stay Well
Sarah


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