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Low-Income Housing: Tackling the Job Count
Monday, September 27th, 2010 - 6:47
Friday, September 24, 2010 - 13:09
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Pick a Number
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 - 12:19
Factcheck.org, sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, is designed to reduce confusion and deception in U.S. politics. We've been following its commentary for some time, and have been generally impressed.
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A Stark Difference
Friday, April 16th, 2010 - 11:03
This week, the Council of Economic Advisers released its third quarterly report (for Q1 2010) on the impact of the federal stimulus with respect to jobs created or saved. The headline numbers: ARRA stimulated between 2.2 and 2.8 million jobs.
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Trying to meet "a gold standard"
Monday, April 5th, 2010 - 10:55
We recently interviewed Chris Patton, Recovery Act director in Wisconsin, to find out more about the improvements to the Wisconsin stimulus website.
Q. Wisconsin did very well on the Good Jobs First evaluation of state Recovery Act websites. What motivated you to make more improvements?
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"Are you spending more time to report than to deal with programmatic responsibilities?"
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 - 14:16
We like transparency. We like statistics. We like up-to-date data.
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Ranking the websites -- additional thoughts
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 - 15:15
Though we found the website rankings done by Good Jobs First really interesting, it didn’t surprise us that some state officials think the effort missed the mark.
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Ranking the stimulus websites
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 - 16:24
All fifty states have set up websites that report on the way they’ve implemented the stimulus bill. Anyone who visits more than a handful of these sites will be immediately struck at the remarkable variety in quality. Some have clearly taken a great deal of thought, time and effort. Others seem like afterthoughts.
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