How can we equate actual state expenditures with state allocations for expenditures???
I chose (B) because while imperfect, it was the next best answer... That whole allocation thing caused me to quite reluctantly cross (E) out

magnusgan Wrote:How can we equate actual state expenditures with state allocations for expenditures???
sumukh09 Wrote:Even though it's not explicitly stated that they actually spend the amount allocated for the particular state, we can assume that they do given the context of the argument.
magnusgan Wrote:I still find it very difficult to equate state expeditures with state allocations. The author only tells us that federal expenditures are really low, so low that they are below allocations to some states. But that doesn't tell us anything about how the states are spending their allocations!