Letter: On the Trail of Stimulus Spending
Publication: The Washington Post
Polly Trottenberg and Ellen Miller
May 13, 2009
The Internet age demands that states and cities have easy-to-use, searchable databases that account for how tax dollars are spent. Yet, as the April 30 Fed Page article "Tracking How Stimulus Dollars Are Tracked" pointed out, this is not how information is currently reported. All too often, data that are to be "publicly accessible" are viewable in nothing more than incomprehensible spreadsheets posted on Web sites.
