Follow the Money: Are Historic Infrastructure Investments Going to California Communities that Need Them Most?

These are the data associated with the analysis titled 'Follow the Money: Are Historic Infrastructure Investments Going to California Communities that Need Them Most? '. To identify whether Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding is reaching communities that the state and federal governments have prioritized as historically overburdened and underserved, we analyze BIL award data in relation to two environmental justice screening tools. We use spatial analysis techniques to examine a subset of California awards for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2022 and 2023 downloaded from USASpending.gov on March 31, 2024 ("BIL_in_CA_allAwards"). The environmental justice analysis focus on the $779.29 million across 241 awards with a local place of performance ("BIL_in_CA_awards").