40 Percent of WV Stimulus Goes to One City
Charleston, W.Va., received the bulk of the state’s created/saved jobs and dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This is according to the latest information posted on Recovery.gov.
Nine of Charleston’s 47 zip codes benefited from the stimulus with 1,426.7 jobs created and/or saved. 17 Charleston zip codes received approximately $410 million in total stimulus [...]
Stimulus Adds 13 Congressional Districts to Montana
BOZEMAN - The government-funded website that tracks stimulus spending is reporting jobs created and dollars received in congressional districts that don’t exist.
According to recovery.gov, thirteen different congressional districts in the state reported receiving stimulus funds as of September 30. Montana has only one federal congressional district.
The majority of state spending and jobs listed on the [...]
UPDATE: More States Reporting Mystery Congressional Districts
New Mexico Watchdog reported earlier in the day that the Obama Administration claimed to create jobs in congressional districts that did not exist.
That reporting error, however, was not limited to New Mexico. Reports are pouring in from everywhere. State watchdogs across the country have found what appear to be phantom congressional districts within Recovery.gov’s statistics. [...]
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