Stimulus Watch Site Tracking Economic Recovery Spending

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My friend Brett on facebook turned me on to this Stimulus Watch site.  The internet is amazing if you use it.  Read on an be sure to watch the video. Amazing, professional, well done, five star locally useful way to see how the stimulus funds are being used.

How do you use Stimulus Watch?

 Watch the video tour!

StimulusWatch.org was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed “shovel-ready” projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects. These projects are not part of the stimulus bill. They are candidates for funding by federal grant programs once the bill passes. Learn more by reading the FAQs.

How can you contribute? Find a project that interests you, or about which you have special knowledge, and let us know what you think. You can find projects by searching or by browsing by locality or program type. Once you find a program, there are three things you can do: 1) vote on whether you believe the project is critical or not; 2) edit the project’s description and points in favor or against, and 3) post a comment in the conversation about the project.

Find a project by: State or City • Keyword Search • Federal Program

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Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending

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