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The government has spent over $5 trillion responding to the pandemic – that’s hard to wrap your head around.

We’re here to help.  

Read our data stories.

The best way to understand how your taxpayer dollars are being spent is to dive into the data. Use our visualizations to see who received pandemic relief money and what they spent it on.

Download the Data

Data enthusiasts, you’re in luck. Our Dashboards & Datasets page provides supporting documentation for the datasets used in the visualizations on our site and points you directly to the source for a complete download. Or go to our Data Exports page to use filters to refine your datasets before you download.

Data Stories

Federal money is funding local affordable housing projects

Many state and local governments are using money from the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) to address the lack of affordable housing in their communities. Here are six such housing projects—three in counties and three in states.
10/03/2024

Find out how children received lunch when schools closed during the pandemic.

Prior to the beginning of the pandemic, approximately 30 million children attending almost 100,000 public and non-profit private schools and residential childcare institutions participated in the National School Lunch Program.
05/25/2023
Page last modified: 11/06/2023