claim: rhode island spends "52 percent more per capita on human service programs than the national average."
author: gary sasse
evidence_1: rhode island was once one of america's most prosperous states, and its rate of  .... the state spends only 4.8 percent more per capita than the national average,  but ... state spends 52 percent more per capita on human services than average  ... the tdi program also guarantees them up to four weeks of benefits per year to  ...
evidence_2: politifact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected  officials and others on its truth-o-meter. ... rhode island spends "52 percent  more per capita on human service programs than the national average." —  politifact ...
evidence_3: jul 15, 2011 ... we hope you all observed july 4, independence day for the united ... partisan  national conference of state legislatures, and rhode island's was bipartisan. ....  20 percent waste and fraud, block estimates that rhode island ... spends 52%  more per capita on human service programs than u.s. average.
evidence_4: •2009: total healthcare spending, percent of gross state product, and total ... the  food and drug administration, and the department of health and human  services. ... been steady calls for a national health insurance program since the  early 1900s, .... lowest among its neighboring states but higher than the national  average.
evidence_5: ›brown spent more than $52 million on construction in 2005, directly generating  ... part iii: partners in opportunity: developing rhode island's human capital. 20.