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Report Asks for Clarity When Reporting on Stimulus Projects

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StimulusWorkersAccording to a report from the CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government, “People need to be able to understand what they are seeing,” in regards to the effects of the economic stimulus package, the first significant piece of legislation pushed forward during the Obama administration.

The research program, led by the IT firm CGI and academic institutions suggests that the government should provide “accessible analyses that make sense out of thousands of individual stimulus projects in a way that is meaningful to generalists, not just specialists.”

CGI was awarded a $20 million contract by the government in the summer of 2009 to build FederalReporting.gov, a resource used by funding beneficiaries to document for the federal government the exact amount of money spent and the number of jobs created.

The report promotes the notion that with clarity, there would be understanding of the roles filled by the stimulus-based projects and initiatives, protecting them from faulty criticism.

“News organizations ran critical stories about a stimulus project to fund turtle crossings under a highway in Florida, after the project was highlighted in a report by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.,” the report states. “To the extent that transparency contributes to the singling out of projects that sound questionable without context . . . transparency might erode rather than strengthen public confidence in the (Recovery Act).”

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