Report Tracks US Recovery Act Money by State, County

Interested in tracking where all the federal Recovery Act money Connecticut receives is going?

ProPublica.org has released an updated report showing how much stimulus money each state received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — including a breakdown by county. The detailed report also lets users search by company/agency name and drill down into specific grants.

Below is a chart showing how much grant money each county in Connecticut — which was — received (click on each county name to see a breakdown for that specific county).

Although it appears Hartford County received a disproportionate share of stimulus money (about $3.3 billion to date, compared to about $500 million for Fairfield County), the report’s authors explain that there is a concentration of state agencies receiving Recovery Act grants in and around the state capitol (in other words, just because a state agency in Hartford received a grant doesn’t necessarily mean all those funds are being spent in Hartford County).

Recipient data reported on Recovery.gov is reconciled with agency data reported on USAspending.gov to arrive at the findings, the reports authors state. The report’s authors claim to have gone through great pains to “scrub” the data and remove any duplicate information.