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02/03/10

Did A Handful of States Mistakenly Depress the National ARRA Job Total?

by Philip Mattera, Good Jobs First

It was expected that the job numbers in the latest round of Recovery Act recipient reporting that just came out would diverge from those of the previous quarter. That's because the Office of Management and Budget changed the job-counting procedure that contract and grant recipients were supposed to follow.

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02/01/10

The Case of the Missing Jobs Revisited

by Philip Mattera, Good Jobs First

Over the weekend the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board posted the new ARRA recipient data for the fourth quarter of 2009. The first thing I checked was whether there was a repeat of the phenomenon I wrote about with the first round of data: projects that are well under way or even completed reporting zero jobs generated.

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01/26/10

Report: States Are Making More Effective Use of Web to Inform Taxpayers About Economic Stimulus Spending

Some states are making dramatic improvements in websites designed to disseminate information about their share of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), but others are still failing to make effective use of online technology to educate taxpayers about the impact of economic stimulus spending.

This is the finding of Show Us the Stimulus (Again), a report released today by Good Jobs First, a non-profit research center based in Washington, DC. It updates a similar study published by Good Jobs First last July.

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The STAR Coalition collaborates (and shares members) with the Coalition for an Accountable Recovery. CAR focuses on getting the federal government to adopt the best transparency and accountability practices for the Recovery Act.