Recovery transparency uneven so far
The Obama administration pledged to rigorously monitor how recovery money is spent but has not yet approached the transparency required by the program’s importance and magnitude. -DB OMB Watch March 10, 2009 Three weeks after President Barack Obama signed into law the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), states have begun to see federal economic stimulus funds move within their borders. Behind the hundreds of billions of dollars soon to