Obama’s Jobs Plan by the Numbers

February 18, 2009

President Obama has said full “transparency and accountability” will be a top priority when it comes to implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. To that end, the White House unveiled a new website: Recovery.gov. The site gives citizens unprecedented access to details about how the money in the plan is being spent, breaking the information down by state, congressional district and federal contractors.

In addition, the White House released detailed estimates of what the job and recovery plan will mean across the country. This map from the Boston Globe uses the White House numbers to show the distribution of the 3.5 million jobs that are expected to be saved or created by the plan over the next two years:

Visit AFSCME’s State and Local Fiscal Relief page to download a 1-page fact sheet with details on the impact in your state, or download a breakdown of the job impact by congressional district (155K PDF).