ed deseve

The data collection and reporting from those who received money from the USD 787 billion US stimulus plan is riddled with errors and inaccuracies, according to a federal audit of the report released on Thursday. Since the report on where stimulus funding went and how many jobs it created or saved was posted at www.recovery.gov on Oct. 30, news organizations have uncovered faulty data entry and misunderstandings that have raised suspicion about the quality of the numbers. The Government Accountability

We've said it was subject to update and revision. We said it wasn't perfect   -Ed DeSeve

 

The data on the federal government's stimulus-tracking Web site has been criticized for being inaccurate, including inflated job creation numbers and Congressional districts that don't exist. But the White House is refusing to back down, championing the effort as a "huge success" and noting that the data will get better. "When you consider the sheer number of reports that had to be filed, processed, and posted; the fact that this had never been done before; and the very short time to check reports and m

When you consider the sheer number of reports that had to be filed, processed, and posted; the fact that this had never been done before; and the very short time to check reports and make sure they were right -- the data collected and posted is very impressive   -Ed DeSeve

 

Buried amid the funding for veterans housing, highway construction and other routine expenditures in the federal government's $787 billion spending package are some surprises.  

Cheered by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on the insurance industry and create a government-run option to compete with private insurers.  

Cheered by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on the insurance industry and create a government-run option to compete with private insurers.  

The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama 's economic recovery plan . It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far. Ed DeSeve, serving as Obama's stimulus overseer, said the administration has been working for weeks to correct mistakes in early counts that identified more than 30,000 jobs paid for with stimulus money.

We disputed, as the AP disputed, the report that came in that calculated a number of jobs but didn't accurately account, the way we account for, a full-time, yearlong employee as being a job   -Robert Gibbs

 

The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan.  

"An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports," the Associated Press reports. Time magazine's Joe Klein has not yet labeled the AP's reporting seditious, but the Obama administration does seem to have added the wire service to its enemies list. Tommy Christopher of Mediaite.com reports Ed DeSeve, senior

looks at only a small portion of the data.   -Tommy Christopher

 

AP looked only at the earliest data posted, representing just 2% of Recovery Act spending.  

A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000. A child care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the help of stimulus money.

If there's an error that was made, let's get it fixed   -Ed DeSeve