Tag Archive: Recovery.gov

Agencies Begin to Post Recovery Lobbying Contacts

by Paul Blumenthal Apr 15, 2009 2:57 pm

Some executive branch agencies are beginning to post lobbyist communications as required by the March 20th White House memorandum on... View Article

Weekly Media Roundup – April 13, 2009

by Mike Smith Apr 13, 2009 3:21 pm

Each weekday, Sunlight’s communications team collects all the press mentions of Sunlight and of our grantees. Instead of just keeping... View Article

Senators Grill Stimulus Watchdog on Recovery.gov

by Paul Blumenthal Apr 3, 2009 11:59 am

Yesterday, Earl Devany, Inspector General for the stimulus, and Rob Nabors, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget... View Article

Disabled adult children

by Bill Allison

investigations

Mar 26, 2009 1:06 pm

This morning, while reading a release linked from Recovery.gov, I ran across one of those government terms that make no sense. As part of the stimulus efforts, the Railroad Retirement Board, an independent agency that manages federal benefits for railroad retirees and their dependents (more details on why this board exists here) will send additional checks of $250 to most of its beneficiaries, "including disabled adult children."

A disabled adult child is a dependent of a railroad pensioner--or Social Security beneficiary--who, because of his disability, is eligible to continue receiving his benefits based on his parent's or ...

The Rise of Recovery.gov and the Virtuous Cycle of Transparency Innovation

by Greg Elin Mar 19, 2009 5:31 pm

In the short 30 days since the President signed the Recovery Act (aka Stimulus Bill) into law and Recovery.gov launched:

26 of 28 federal agencies currently handling stimulus dollars have launched websites at identical "/recovery" URLs (example: http://hhs.gov/recovery)
83 identically formatted .xls weekly reports were filed by agencies and are downloadable by reporting agency (generally 3 per agency)
42 states have launched their own recovery-related web sites with several adopting the "/recovery" meme (for example: http://www.maine.gov/recovery)
3,900 hits-per-second loads have been reported for Recovery.gov

These early stats suggest our federal government is headed for the Web 2.0 big leagues in tracking stimulus dollars. Even better, they suggest everyone else is fielding franchise teams and swinging for the fences. No doubt we are going to see a number of strike outs as different federal, state, and local authorities learn to communicate and play together using web-based protocols and practices. But we are also going to see some exciting home runs and grand slams, too.