1. Recovery.gov: Completely Tracking One-Fifth of the Recovery Act

    By Lisa Chiu Feb 15, 2010 11:27 a.m. 1 comment

    In his State of the Union Address late last month, President Barack Obama declared - to great applause - that there were two million Americans working now who would otherwise be unemployed if not for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus.

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  2. Recovery.gov data available on FedSpending.org

    By Bill Allison Dec 3, 2009 4:19 p.m.

    Our friends at OMB Watch have added Recovery data to FedSpending.org. The advanced search is available here. Heres a record for a recipient Real Time profiled back when Recovery data was only available on USASpending.gov, and heres one for the Carson City Airport Authority, which we wrote about here.

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  3. 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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  4. USDA misses the point

    By Bill Allison Jul 20, 2009 4:11 p.m. 2 comments

    Matt Drudge has linked a dozen or so examples of what look to be wasteful spending in the stimulus--$2,531,600 for 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB', $1,191,200 for '2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED' (I linked that one immediately below), $351,807 for 'REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER, $1,562,568 for 'MOZZARELLA CHEESE'... and so on. In response, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture posted the following clarifying information:

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  5. 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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  6. Open notebook: Following stimulus contracts

    By Luke Rosiak Jun 29, 2009 8:55 p.m. 1 comment

    Recovery.gov might not be useful yet for "following every penny" of stimulus spending, but with a telephone, Google, USASpending.gov and some luck it might not be that hard. Pretty much at random, I picked out a bunch of congressional press releases touting stimulus dollars going to local communities, and started making calls. Here's some notes on where one inquiry led me.

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  7. Some stimulus recipients to report in Excel?

    By Bill Allison Jun 23, 2009 8:02 p.m.

    Just reading the new guidance from Office of Management and Budget for recipients funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to report information to the government: "This Recipient Reporting spreadsheet template is to be used for non-machine recipient reporting. It enables manual data entry and collection of recipient reporting information in a familiar excel format."

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  8. 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.

  9. Why there's so little spending data on Recovery.gov

    By Bill Allison May 29, 2009 2:14 a.m. 1 comment

    Because apparently, there's not all that much spending yet:

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  10. 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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  11. Jake Tapper finds $27 million=$59,000

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 3:54 p.m. 2 comments

    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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  12. Clip job

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 5:02 a.m. 1 comment

    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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  13. 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...

  14. 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. 1 comment

    Apparently $109.5 million. From the aforementioned 100 Days, 100 Projects report:

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