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Policy Brief: Recommendations for the Allocation and Administration of American Rescue Plan Act Funding for American Indian Tribal Governments

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Eric C. Henson
Megan M. Hill
Miriam Jorgensen
Joseph P. Kalt
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2021

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Policy Brief #6 -- ARPA 04-15-21 vFIN DIST.pdf

PDF icon Recommendations for the Allocation and Administration of American Rescue Plan Act Funding for American Indian Tribal Governments

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides the largest infusion of federal funding for Indian Country in the history of the United States. More than $32 billion dollars is directed toward assisting American Indian nations and communities as they work to end and recover from the devastating COVID19 pandemic – which was made worse in Indian Country precisely because such funding is long overdue.

In this policy brief, we set out recommendations which we hope will promote the wise and productive allocation of ARPA funds to the nation’s 574 federally recognized American Indian tribes. We see ARPA as a potential “Marshall Plan” for the revitalization of Indian nations. The Act holds the promise of materially remedying at least some of the gross, documented, and long-standing underfunding of federal obligations and responsibilities in Indian Country. Yet, fulfilling that promise requires that the federal government expeditiously and wisely allocate ARPA funds to tribes, and that tribes efficiently and effectively deploy those funds to maximize their positive impacts on tribal communities.

COVID-19, intergovernmental relationships, public policy, community health
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Henson, Eric, Megan Hill, Miriam Jorgenson, and Joseph Kalt. 2021. “Recommendations for Allocation and Administration of American Rescue Plan Act Funding for American Indian Tribal Governments”.

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