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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