A powerful House Democrat used unusually harsh terms to blast the Obama administration's manipulation of stimulus data Monday night, and demanded an h...
ABC News | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus sp...
Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
Layar's new augmented reality app allows iPhone 3G and Android users to see where recovery.gov contract dollars are going in the world around them. S...
The Denver Post | Miles Moffeit and Burt Hubbard | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Colorado companies have created more jobs through federal contracts funded with stimulus dollars than companies in every other state, according to the...
nytimes.com | MICHAEL COOPER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Businesses that got stimulus contracts directly from the federal government reported creating or saving 30,383 jobs so far, according to data publishe...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
The public will get a chance to see in detail how their stimulus money is being spent when data is released about the $787 billion stimulus package on...
Los Angeles Times | Joe Markman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Reporting from Washington - Since February, when the government launched a website, Recovery.gov, to provide a window on the federal stimulus package...
Anil Dash | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology
Our government's embrace of the same web technologies that have radically improved productivity in the private sector represents a permanent and fundamental upgrade in the way our government functions.
Mike Pickett | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business
While Recovery.Gov shows where federal funds have been spent, it is not yet tracking the state and local level contracts, where much of the job creation will take place.
Jake Brewer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Read as stated, this description leads one to believe that the U.S. government spent nearly $1.2M for 2 pounds of ham ...sliced.
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 08.20.2009 | Home
As is now showing up all over the social web and news reports, the site Recovery.gov - which was set up to help the public hold government accountable...
ABC News | Ned Potter | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
The idea was transparency. If the Obama administration was spending $797 billion as stimulus money to jump-start the economy, end the recession and br...
ProPublica | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
This week, ProPublica received a copy of a section of California's corrected application for State Fiscal Stabilization Funds that fixes an accounting error worth $2.3 billion.
Real Time Investigations, Sunlight Projects | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
A company that offers outsourcing services to federal and state governments got a a contract award for $2.8 million in funds from the American Recover...
Max Gladwell | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media.
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
I think we're seeing the slow transformation of Washington culture, from the bottom up, by people passionately committed to public service and its transformation.
Mike Pickett | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
Not only is Recovery Act funding unclear to the taxpaying American public, it isn't even transparent to those in Washington who are doling out this massive amount of spending.
The Hill | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
As critics slam the administration's Recovery.gov website for a lack of accessible data, a private company has launched a rival -- Recovery.com. Onvi...
Chicago Public Radio | Michael Puente | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago
The President's $787 billion spending bill will send large chunks of money to Illinois and Indiana. President Obama says he wants transparency in how ...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
The website created by the Obama administration to help taxpayers follow the money -- www.recovery.gov -- is becoming a new Internet sensation....
W. David Stephenson | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
If it becomes the core of an ambitious "smart regulation" switch, recovery.gov could cut corporate costs, improve governmental efficiency, and drastically increase transparency.
The Sunlight Foundation | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
The launch of Recovery.gov as an accountability tool for the public exhibits the spirit of President Obama's promise to use the Internet to connect ci...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
More money to battle STDs. Recovery.gov stripped out. A nod to the Patriot Act. Huffington Post readers have taken a preliminary look at the Senate st...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics
In an address Wednesday, President Obama said that, when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passes (as it presumably will), taxpayers will be ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics