States scramble to track federal stimulus bucks
Just as the $787 billion economic stimulus is unprecedented, so are the reporting demands it's making on state CIOs and IT organizations, which are scrambling to whip up new processes and tools to accurately track and account for their states' shares of the stimulus pie.
Maryland is tops at tracking stimulus spending
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley doesn't have to guess where federal stimulus funds will do the most good in his state: He can see for himself -- and his constituents can, too.
Is the federal stimulus creating tech jobs? The government isn't saying
One obvious follow-up question to the U.S. government's announcement this month that the federal stimulus has created or saved 30,000 jobs so far is this: How many were IT and engineering jobs? Unfortunately, there isn't an answer.
Broadband subsidy: too much money, but mostly well targeted
A few weeks ago I aired my worries about how the broadband funding in the Federal stimulus package was going to be spent. The government has now released documentation on that part of the package, and so far things look mostly OK.
White House plan to create 600K jobs in 100 days won't help tech
The real impact of the nearly $800 billion stimulus package on shrinking IT employment remains in the future, despite President Obama's plan to expedite hiring of some 600,000 people over the next 100 days.
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- Dann
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