FEELING STIMULATED YET?
Matthew Gagnon, Pine Tree Politics - Recovery.gov has started posting detailed accounts of stimulus money, and how it has been spent. We are now able to go to the site and view the amount of money spent and the number of jobs that money has produced in each congressional district.
Looking at the data from Maine, we find some troubling information. In the first congressional district (Chellie Pingree's), the Federal government has allocated $491,144,080 (that is about $770.48 per resident of the district, which of course includes tens of thousands of children who don't pay income taxes, as well as those who are unemployed or elderly – the cost per member of the workforce is much higher). What has Maine gotten for that 491 million dollar investment?
920 jobs.
Looking at the data from Maine, we find some troubling information. In the first congressional district (Chellie Pingree's), the Federal government has allocated $491,144,080 (that is about $770.48 per resident of the district, which of course includes tens of thousands of children who don't pay income taxes, as well as those who are unemployed or elderly – the cost per member of the workforce is much higher). What has Maine gotten for that 491 million dollar investment?
920 jobs.
posted by TPR | 10:29 AM
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