Mistaken Recovery
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The website set up by the Obama Administration to track the stimulus dollars, recovery.gov, reported many jobs saved or created in congressional districts that don't exist. ABC News senior congressional correspondent, Jonathan Karl, discusses the error and what caused it.
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As in posts 1 & 2, the same seems to be the case in that 42nd district in CT. Maybe J. Karl can get to the bottom if he searches by the district number WITHOUT the type designation. Good reporting by Jonathan Karl on the issue.
This seems to indicate that there needs to be someone paying a bit more attention to the paperwork when they are documenting the money trail. Sloppy paperwork doesn't work in bathroom business OR government finance. (There IS a difference... isn't there?)
When building databases like this, you always load 'test' data to check how well it works. It sounds like test data was loaded by the developer but not totally removed before launch. There are various stages of launch such as soft for testing before actual hard launch.
Don't know about the other states, but the New York references sound like people used state Assembly districts rather than Congressional districts -- by accident, or because state legislators were attempting to get credit for bringing the grants to their districts.
There is a 71st ASSEMBLY district...maybe a misunderstanding of the type of district?
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