Unprecedented. Uncertain. Historic. Those words apply to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state budgets it disrupted—and the subsequent massive infusion of federal stimulus.

NCSL’s database tracking state allocations of Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund aid reflects both previous priorities, as seen under the Coronavirus Relief Fund, and new spending trends:

The idea of the American Dream, that hard work can overcome humble beginnings, is increasingly illusory for a swath of Americans, policy expert and researcher David A. Williams told a session at NCSL Base Camp 2021 on Tuesday.

With Republicans maintaining their majorities in both houses of Congress and now controlling the White House, can they get their agenda passed and to the president's desk?