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• Reporting the Non-Reporters

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  A Nov. 30 OMB memo to agencies, " Improving Compliance in Recovery Act Recipient Reporting ," instructed the federal agencies to "compile a verified and detailed list of recipients who were required to report in the October period but failed to do so." The lists was to be submitted to OMB by Dec. 4. This list and ...
  1 week ago

• Open Government Directive Highlights Federal Spending Transparency

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Sean noted earlier today that the Obama Administration released the Open Government Directive this morning. It will have far-reaching implications for government transparency generally, but the directive focuses on federal spending transparency, specifically mentioning Recovery Act transparency as a critical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Questions Raised By Flawed Stimulus Job Figures

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  Pelican Institute reporter Steve Beatty has a new story demonstrating that hundreds of jobs allegedly “saved or created” in Louisiana may be incorrect or exaggerated: The issue of phantom Congressional districts listed in the national stimulus database recently created a stir. But the tally of Louisiana jobs ...
  3 weeks ago

• Questions Raised By Flawed Stimulus Job Figures

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  Pelican Institute reporter Steve Beatty has a new story demonstrating that hundreds of jobs allegedly “saved or created” in Louisiana may be incorrect or exaggerated: The issue of phantom Congressional districts listed in the national stimulus database recently created a stir. But the tally of Louisiana jobs ...
  3 weeks ago

• Colbert takes a crack at Recovery.gov

  
  Social media in the public sector — Authority: 91
  The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Better Know a Made-Up District – Connecticut’s 42nd www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor U.S. Speedskating
  3 weeks ago

• Inflated Stimulus Jobs Part 4: More Phony Numbers

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 117
  Again last week the Obama Administration attempted to counter all of the bad press about their phony numbers of jobs “created or saved” by the stimulus bill.  Administration spokespersons claimed that while scrubbing the data they uncovered over 60,000 jobs that were suspect and eliminated them from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• False Claims “Stimulate” Investigation

  
  Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy — Authority: 117
  Click the play button to hear the audio commentaryThe White House recently claimed that about 640,000 jobs have been saved or created as a result of the $787 billion stimulus package. Many have questioned the accuracy of this number, and for good reason.Faulty reporting appears to be pervasive in the data used to make ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Math 2.0

  
  Bearing Drift :: Virginia Politics On-Demand — Authority: 542
  In a world of supercomputers and sophisticated programming languages, one would think keeping track of stimulus money going to 435 Congressional districts would be a job for a computer science intern. But for just $18M , the shiny new website, Recovery.gov , which was created to promote government transparency and ...
  4 weeks ago

• SuperCapitalism: The Sperry Plan To Rescue The U.S. Economy

  
  DGC Blog — Authority: 120
  This is an article from Mr. Mac Speery which appeared on OpEdNews .  Mac is a writer & social activist living in San Diego. He is an “out of the cage” free thinker, who brings to his writing innovation and creativity honed from years in industry in Southern California. This is his suggestions to start ...
  4 weeks ago

• Stimulus Leads to Better State Level Reporting

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 639
  NextGov reports on positive side-effects of the stimulus’ disclosure and transparency provisions: Technology that states have deployed to report how they spent federal stimulus funds is likely to permanently change information exchange across the public and private sector, despite controversy over figures on the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Health Care Hiatus

  
  The Melting Pot Project — Authority:
  Apologies for the silent week - Ive been in bed with what seems to be pneumonia, and seeing as its being overly persistent and the holidays are coming up, I figure this would be a good time to make some...
  4 weeks ago

• Stumbling Around .gov Websites: Good, Bad, and Goofy

  
  As Your World Changes — Authority: 99
  Recently, attention returned to concern about the role of accessibility in the U.S. government transparency movement . While gov website operators might well deserve a good grade for effort, most sites have obvious failings that experts and users repeatedly point out. In this post, I show some of my personal problems ...
  5 weeks ago

• Fake District, Fake Jobs, Real Representation

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Grant Bosse is onto something. Let me go further than that. Grant Bosse is a genius. This video will explain why he’s a genius: Here’s a transcript of the interview he did with FNC’s Brian Sullivan: SULLIVAN: Your next guest has jsut announced his run for Congress from the phantom Double-Zero district of ...
  5 weeks ago

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