The Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog, will testify at a House oversight committee hearing Thursday that there are "significant issues to be addressed" in the accuracy of reports about the number of jobs …
Read Original Story: Number of Stimulus Jobs Created Called Into Question – Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal op-ed page is to the Obama administration as Inigo Montoya was to the guy who killed his father — not simply critical, but obsessively, menacingly critical, and often to hilarious effect. But hey, they have a point about the …
Read Original Story: Will Obama's "Jobs Created" Debacle Hurt the Next Job Stimulus? – Atlantic Online
The Sarbanes-Oxley Law was rushed through Congress in the wake of an enormous corporate accounting scandal that shook Wall Street and investors across the country. ceo’s and officers at several large companies were found to have “cooked …
Read Original Story: Obama Stimulus Numbers: The Return of Enron-Style Accounting – Big Government (blog)
With the economy still in rough shape, calls mount for extra infusions of federal money. But critics say the first stimulus hasn’t created the jobs it was supposed to. By Mark Trumbull | Staff writer/ November 18, 2009 edition The economic stimulus …
Read Original Story: Does US need a second stimulus to create jobs? – Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON — According to the Obama administration’s latest count, the president’s economic stimulus package has created 45 jobs in Texas’ 58th congressional district and 30 jobs in the state’s 91st district. …
Read Original Story: Texas phantom districts inflate stimulus spending results – MyWestTexas.com
OKLAHOMA CITY – With federal stimulus funds pouring into Oklahoma, we here at Oklahoma Watchdog were curious if all that stimulus spending – $787 billion to be precise – was creating jobs here in the Sooner State. As it turns out, a lot of the reports …
Read Original Story: Oklahoma's Phantom Districts – Tulsa Today
WASHINGTON — The federal Web site that tracks spending from the Obama administration’s $787 billion economic stimulus program reports that the program has created thousands of jobs in congressional districts that don’t exist. …
Read Original Story: Government Web site says stimulus created jobs in nonexistent districts – MiamiHerald.com
WASHINGTON – When Barbara Harrison, director of the housing authority in Burkburnett, Texas, recently filled out a form to report a $99664 federal stimulus award, she didn’t know the number for her local …
Read Original Story: Errors on government Web site make it difficult to track stimulus money – Dallas Morning News
There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts. And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified. …
Read Original Story: Exclusive: Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist – ABC News
Stimulus critics were abuzz this week flogging the federal Web site Recovery.gov for flaws in its first big data release. Problems ranged from confusing variation and …
Read Original Story: Are the Criticisms of the Gov's Stimulus Site Legit? – ProPublica
