ProPublica has outdone themselves once again:
We’ve taken all the data used on the government’s stimulus Web site, Recovery.gov, cleaned out the cobwebs and added thousands of records the feds didn’t include — the law doesn’t require all recipients to report to Recovery.gov — to create the most comprehensive publicly available analysis of stimulus spending that we know of. Type in your county or click on your state to find local projects, and check out how per capita spending compares with poverty, income and unemployment in your area. Start here.
In the Rocky Mountain West, Los Alamos County, New Mex., home of the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, raked in an astonishing $241,508,978 in federal stimulus funding — a per capita haul of $13,306.
Rest assured Congress isn’t just seeding funds to local federal facilities. Tiny Clark County, Ida., population 910, is sharing in the stimulus largess to build out water infrastructure projects.
To see the top spending in counties per capita in the Rocky Mountain West, click the images below to open ProPublica’s painstaking research in your state:
