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Interactive map: Where $541 billion in recovery went

By | January 30, 2009, 1:15pm PST

Do you know where all the money of the House of Representatives’ $825 billion Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going?

The various spending programs and tax cuts contained in the plan are intended to help communities across the entire nation rebound from the teetering economic edge. So who gets the dough?

Here’s a state-by-state interactive map of allocations for the aspects of the plan for which the Center for American Progress could establish where the money is going. The map constitutes 66 percent of the total cost of the package.

The map (which can be seen natively here) also shows the proportion of the funds that will help each state balance their budgets rather than providing additional funding for specific programs.

Data is current as of 10:00 a.m. Monday, January 26, 2009.

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kurio99 2nd Feb 2009
Could we see this chart as Per Capita? It would be more interesting. As it stands, in terms of sheer dollars, no surprises.
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TOILET!
Christian_<>< 30th Jan 2009
WASTE of tax dollars!
And the other $284 billion went to ....
My transparent view seems to be clouding over.

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Socialism and re-education camps
Christian_<>< 30th Jan 2009
Comrades will comply to the leaders wishes or be sent to
forced labor camps worshipping Obama-isiah...
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News Flash!
Boutmar 31st Jan 2009
Most jobs are Government jobs so ?Socialism? has been around a very long time in the good ole U.S. of A

Any job you work at is not a democracy,
It?s a dictatorship.

Get over it Obama won and the Republican fear mongering McCarthyism is over. Hmmm Bush spent trillions on an illegal invasion of Iraq, no wonder were broke. Fell right into the terrorists hands on that one. Oh yeh and in Bushes words "Your either with us or against us." If you don't like it then leave.
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It's all going
frgough 31st Jan 2009
to prime the inflation pump.

Ah, it brings back the sweet memories of the Carter years when the feds were printing money so fast, the images were actually crooked on the bills.
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kurio99 2nd Feb 2009
Could we see this chart as Per Capita? It would be more interesting. As it stands, in terms of sheer dollars, no surprises.

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