Yesterday we launched a new interactive, showing how our unemployment insurance system is in crisis. So far, 25 states have run out of money and been forced to borrow from the federal government, raise taxes or cut benefits And we project that the trust funds in nine more – Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Vermont – will go into the red in the next six months.

The consequences are dire. Businesses in many states where unemployment funds have been depleted have seen their taxes raised from a few dollars to nearly $1,000 per worker for 2010. Other states are asking unemployed workers to take a hit. Pennsylvania has cut all unemployment checks by 2.4 percent, and some seniors in Virginia will see their unemployment benefits drastically cut if they also receive Social Security.

We plan to cover this issue from the ground up in the coming months, and we're reaching out to you for insight and help.

We just published "Our Stimulus Spot Check: Summer Wave of Projects Nears Crest." It's the first of two stories emerging from the Stimulus Spot Check, our first big project for the ProPublica Reporting Network. The extended byline at the end of the piece lists everyone who participated.

Check it out.

Today is the last day to file your Stimulus Spot Check report. File here, and I'll review it momentarily.

Since April, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation has released a monthly report detailing the results of its stimulus money. The report provides a list of construction projects underway, as well as both the number of employees and total number of hours worked on each project. I used that information to fill in the column "# hours worked" for NH projects in our Stimulus Spot Check chart.

Other states may be publishing employment reports for the month of June. Together they'd tell us approximately how many full-time construction jobs the stimulus created that month. Would you help look?

Send in the url of reports to amanda@propublica.org or post in the comments below (make sure to note what state).