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Introducing Recovery Explorer
By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 1, 2010 5:09 p.m.More than a year has passed since President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Federal agencies have been distributing some $787 billion appropriated by the act to jump start the economy. According to Recovery.gov, the Web site that tracks spending under the act, about 40 percent of that money has been spent, sent around the country in the form of contracts, grants, loans, tax benefits and entitlements.
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Recovery.gov recipient data just in
By Bill Allison Oct 15, 2009 4:50 p.m.Recovery.gov posted information today showing that 30,383 jobs have been created or saved by the federal contracts that have been awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. So far, $16 billion has been disbursed by 9,100 contracts. The federal government is spending more than $525,000 spent on every job they saved or created.
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New Data from Recovery.gov
By Bill Allison Jul 16, 2009 9:09 p.m.The office of Vice President Joe Biden sent out a statement with links to new Recovery maps:
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Turning 100 Days, 100 Projects into data
By Bill Allison May 29, 2009 3:50 p.m.Chauncey Thorn of CongressSpacebook has made the 100 Days, 100 Projects report searchable. And I've slapped together a little Dabble database here that's a work in progress -- note all the "not specified" that run all the way through it.
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Why there's so little spending data on Recovery.gov
By Bill Allison May 29, 2009 2:14 a.m.Because apparently, there's not all that much spending yet:
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Oblique allusion to contract data available on Recovery.gov
By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 8:36 p.m.We have a partial winner. My colleague Greg Elin has tracked down, on Recovery.gov, this announcement:
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Jake Tapper finds $27 million=$59,000
By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 3:54 p.m.I am still playing around with the spread sheet of the 100 projects, which I'll be posting in some form (probably Dabble) in a bit. Right now I'm looking to see if I can find any of these projects listed on Recovery.gov, the agency Recovery Web pages, FedBizOpps.gov, USASpending.gov, and other places. Not sure I'll do this for all 100 projects.
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Clip job
By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 5:02 a.m.Of the 100 projects listed in the 100 Days, 100 Projects report, 37 come from newspaper, wire service and broadcast outlets. So why is government depending on Nexis searches for its data on Recovery spending?
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West Virginia...
By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 3:14 a.m....is apparently in the Midwest. Look at project numbers 56 and 57 in the 100 Days, 100 Projects report...
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How much stimulus money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb?
By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 1:51 a.m.Apparently $109.5 million. From the aforementioned 100 Days, 100 Projects report:
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