States struggle to deploy TANF job creation dollars

Where are stimulus funds for jobs? | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/14/2010:

"...Federal stimulus dollars funneled through the state of Tennessee went into a job-creation program that provided 10 previously unemployed workers to Armstrong Pie and underwrote their salaries.

This same money, which totals $5 billion nationally through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grants, is available to all the states. TANF money usually funds welfare programs.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are sitting on hundreds of millions of federal stimulus dollars that could be used to create jobs - $330 million in Pennsylvania and $195 million in New Jersey. Only Delaware, locally, has already created a similar program."

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Show Us the Jobs!

Some states are doing a better job that others in giving information to the public about the numbers and types of jobs created through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), according to a new report by Good Jobs First. Check out how your state is doing.

Report: States Are Making More Effective Use of Web to Inform Taxpayers About Economic Stimulus Spending

Washington, January 26, 2010—Some states are making dramatic improvements in websites designed to disseminate information about their share of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), but others are still failing to make effective use of online technology to educate taxpayers about the impact of economic stimulus spending.

This is the finding of Show Us the Stimulus (Again), a report released today by Good Jobs First, a non-profit research center based in Washington, DC. It updates a similar study published by Good Jobs First last July.

The full text of the report as well as state-specific appendices can be found on the Good Jobs First website at www.goodjobsfirst.org/stimulusweb.cfm.

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