Grab a Helping of Stimulus Data from Our Latest Recovery Tracker

by Jennifer LaFleur
ProPublica, July 1, 12:08 p.m.

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Nothing says summer like a fresh crop of stimulus data.

So along with our revamped ProPublica website, we bring you the next generation of our Recovery Tracker. As with our last trackers, we started with data from the federal stimulus website, Recovery.gov, and added thousands of stimulus spending records from USAspending.gov.

We also have continued to better track money to the county level. That means that instead of seeing a chunk of money going to your state Department of Education, you’ll see how much money your local counties received from the state (as long as your state reported the information to the Recovery.gov folks).

But wait. That’s not all. The latest version of our Recovery Tracker also includes more information about stimulus vendors. We identified more than 1,300 vendors where no recipient name was reported on Recovery.gov.

Finding our new Recovery Tracker will be easy. It will live online in the new Tools and Data section of ProPublica.org.

And for all you data lovers out there, you still can request a copy of your state’s data.

If you want to know about how we do all this, check out our detailed methodology.

If you'd like to be notified when we publish new data -- Recovery and more -- sign up for ProPublica's data and reporting tools e-mail list.

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Recovery Tracker
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ProPublica’s Unofficial Guide to Recovery.gov
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How to Background Check Stimulus Companies
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Documents

Resources

Recovery.gov
The government’s stimulus transparency page
Investments by State
Recovery.gov's list of how much each state is getting, in total and for each program
Investments by Agency
Recovery.gov's list of how much each agency has available and paid out
Projects by State
An interactive map of projects by state and by county, including their estimated value
Policy Debates by State
Primers on stimulus debates in each state
Conference of Mayors
A run-down of stimulus programs, news, and developments in U.S. cities
Stateline
News and information from the Pew Center on the States
CNN Stimulus Project
A weeklong special with stories, video and graphics from January 2010
Business Exchange (U.S. Economic Stimulus)
Stimulus news and resources from BusinessWeek
Education Week (Politics K-12)
Breakdowns and analysis of education funding
Read the Stimulus
Searchable index of different versions of the bill
The New York Times (Economic Stimulus)
The Times’ latest stimulus coverage
Sunshine.GOP.gov
A breakdown of stimulus contracts from the House Republican Conference