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[Edward Cherlin]

Perhaps some of that $21 billion for education includes textbooks.

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If you know people in your State who can benefit from the projects now
beginning to flow thru the Federal Administration due to the ARRP, you
may want to hook them up with this tool. This is a case where ground
up works when top down does not seem to connect the dots.

Can Recovery.Gov Get Local in Time to Help?
by Nancy Scola

Economic recovery -- and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in
particular -- is big business in more ways than one. Firms and
individuals with years of experience wading in the flow of government
monies are working to figure out their place in this new world order.
Onvia, a Washington State company that connects would-be contractors
with government contracts -- has released Recovery.org. (Count Joe
Biden extraordinarily confused.) The company is making the argument
that it has taken them ten years and more than a hundred employees to
develop the contacts and subject-matter expertise necessary to track
government contracts all the way down to the local school board or
highway authority or mosquito abatement program that actually doles
out federal dollars to contractors. The Onvia site is offering up what
they know on ARRA contracts for free. (The company's hope, of course,
is that you might find their information valuable enough to pay for a
fuller taste.) OMB's Recovery.gov has its head in the right place, the
company argues, but the job is simply too big and too complex to
approach from the top down. Do they have a point? One piece of
evidence in favor of their interpretation: USAspending.gov, the
product of legislation co-sponsored by a junior senator by the name of
Barack Obama, is still struggling to drill down to the subcontractor
level some three years after its launch.

(In case you're wondering on Onvia managed to get their hands on the
Recovery.org domain, the company says that they leased it from a
substance abuse rehabilitation service before Obama announced the name
of his site. Lucky break!)

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