Fun with Numbers - State Spending

Killed a little time paging through the state budget book Gov. Terry Branstad's staff dropped off Friday. A few interesting nuggets:

Annual Medicaid cost, per client served (380,749 clients)  -- $9,038 ($2,166 state share)

Annual Child Welfare cost per client (8,366 clients) -- $10,586 ($5,015 state share)

Family Investment Program cost per-client (44,681 clients)  -- $1,565 ($608 state share)

Annual cost per-inmate at state correctional facilities -- $30,456

Cost-per inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary, annually -- $43,055

State spending per public school pupil, FY 2011 -- $7,881

Per voluntary preschool pupil -- $2,206

Per community college student -- $1,948

Per state university student -- $10,233

Number of State Employees - 42,171

State workers employed by Regents universities - 20,251

State workers employed by the Department of Human Services - 5,101

Federal funding flowing into overall state budget -- $6.476 billion

Federal funding for human services -- $3.264 billion

Federal money for transportation -- $530.669 million

Federal money for education -- $477.551 million

Annual budget for the Iowa House -- $12.6 million

Annual budget for the Iowa Senate -- $8.2 million

Governor's office budget -- $2.197 million

Wanna kill some of your own time? The

budget book is online here.