Thanks to the Recovery.gov website, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) has proven to be the most transparent federal spending bill in U.S. history. Now all that data can literally be right at your fingertips.More...
Largely lost in the partisan bickering over the stimulus has been the law's enormous positive impact on improving government transparency. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is not just the most transparent federal spending bill in U.S. history-the changes it pioneered will endure even after the stimulus winds down.More...
The fifth round of Recovery Act recipient data (covering the third quarter of 2010) just posted on Recovery.gov is both disappointing and frustrating. Disappointing, because the aggregate employment numbers have turned sharply downward. Recipient employers reported a total of 671,607 full-time-equivalent jobs associated with ARRA funding, down 10 percent from the 750,000 reported for the previous quarter.More...
A new report published by Policy Matters Ohio finds that the highest per‐capita funding for ARRA energy and environemental projects occurred in the state's most economically distressed counties.More...
