New Jersey‘s congressional delegation almost swelled from 13 to 31, according to recovery.gov. Millions of stimulus dollars were distributed to 18 Garden State districts that do not exist. The cost and job creation of that funding is provided below:

00 congressional district                52           $7,095,859

15th congressional district            10           $5,637,012

17th congressional district            1              $3,241,589

40th congressional district            384         $2,027,303

36th congressional district            39           $1,053,415

27th congressional district            0              $774,397

34th congressional district            1.6          $746,861

19th congressional district            0              $720,346

35th congressional district            60           $696,491

14th congressional district            5              $652,877

18th congressional district            0              $603,596

33rd congressional district            0              $600,689

30th congressional district            4              $463,500

28th congressional district            0              $444,518

25th congressional district            18           $314,683

22nd congressional district           0              $267,909

80th congressional district            0              $203,193

26th congressional district            0              $86,329

A Watchdog study revealed 440 non-existent congressional districts within the stimulus tracking web site, recovery.org. The full report can be found here and below:

Recovery’s Phantom Districts –