@article {1420536, title = {Assessing the U.S. Treasury Department{\textquoteright}s Allocations of Funding for Tribal Governments under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021}, year = {2021}, abstract = {

Eric C. Henson, Miriam R. Jorgensen, Joseph P. Kalt, \& Isabelle G. Leonaitis; November 2021\ \ 

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ({\textquotedblleft}the Act{\textquotedblright} or {\textquotedblleft}ARPA{\textquotedblright}) has resulted in the single largest infusion\ of federal funding for Native America in U.S. history. The core of this funding is $20 billion for the more than\ 570 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments. As required by the Act, the\ Department of the Treasury ({\textquotedblleft}Treasury{\textquotedblright} or {\textquotedblleft}the Department{\textquotedblright}) devised and has now implemented a formula\ for allocating these monies. In this report, the authors find that the allocations that have been made are grossly inequitable and\ contrary to the policy objectives of Congress, the Biden Administration, and the Treasury Department itself.

This study uses publicly available information to estimate enrollment and employment counts for tribes.\ These figures are only estimates created for the express purpose of analyzing the appropriateness of the US Department of the Treasury{\textquoteright}s American Rescue Plan Act allocations. Our estimates have not and cannot be verified against actual enrollment or employment data submitted to the Department of Treasury by each tribe.\  We believe the estimates are as accurate as possible and reliable for the purpose of assessing the relative positions of tribes under Treasury{\textquoteright}s ARPA allocations, but should not be extracted and used as accurate for any individual tribe or for any purpose other than how they are used here.

}, url = {https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/assessing_the_u.s._treasury_departments_allocations_of_funding_for_tribal_governments.pdf?m=1635972521}, author = {Eric C. Henson and Miriam R. Jorgensen and Joseph P. Kalt and Isabelle G. Leonaitis} }