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The government has spent over $5 trillion responding to the pandemic – that’s hard to wrap your head around.

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Read our data stories.

The best way to understand how your taxpayer dollars are being spent is to dive into the data. Use our visualizations to see who received pandemic relief money and what they spent it on.

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Data enthusiasts, you’re in luck. Our Dashboards & Datasets page provides supporting documentation for the datasets used in the visualizations on our site and points you directly to the source for a complete download. Or go to our Data Exports page to use filters to refine your datasets before you download.

Data Stories

Who are prime recipients and sub-recipients?

In short, prime recipients receive money directly from the federal government. The prime recipients may then pay some of the money they received to other entities for goods or services. These entities are sub-recipients.
10/28/2021

Two weeks. Under 20 employees. How many businesses got paycheck protection program loans?

Between February 24 and March 9, 2021, only small businesses and non-profits with fewer than twenty employees could apply for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. Our data shows more than 436,438 loans totaling $13.8 billion were approved during that two-week window.
10/21/2021
Page last modified: 11/06/2023