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Tracking the Stimulus Money

The US Government maintains a web site to "track the money" spent on the economic recover. This is a good thing - we want accountability and transparency.


The site maintains a map. I checked out my two States, Florida and Illinois. Each State received over $11 billion in stimulus funds, and spent over $5 billion in funds.


So far they are equal. But then we get to the self reported number of jobs created. Illinois claims over 13,000 jobs, while Florida claims over 59,000 jobs. Was Florida over four times as successful as Illinois creating jobs, or were they just more aggressive in guestimating the numbers?  


Impossible to know for sure. Probably some of both.



State Funds Received Jobs     Cost Per Job
Created
Illinois 5,900,430,000     13,000     453,879
Florida 5,436,100,000     59,844       90,838

IL v Fl Job ratio    5 to  1




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http://www.recovery.gov/


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