IDAHO
www.accountability.idaho.gov
As of October 13, 2009:
| Agency Reported Data: | | Rank: |
| Funds Announced | $1,704,798,822 | 39 |
| Funds Available | $1,107,610,537 | 43 |
| Funds Paid Out | $369,610,646 | 42 |
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| Recipient Reported Data: | | Rank: |
| Number of Awards | 51 | 40 |
| Funds Awarded | $477,881,019 | 11 |
| Funds Awarded Per Capita | $314 | 4 |
| Funds Received | $82,188,228 | 6 |
| Jobs Created / Saved | 632 | 14 |
| Unemployment Rate | 8.8 | 25 |
Notes: All Rankings are from Highest to Lowest. For example, a ranking of 15 for “Funds Announced” means that the state had the 15th highest amount of funds announced. A ranking of 15 for the unemployment rate means that this state has the 15th highest unemployment rate.
Terms defined by http://www.recovery.gov/
Recipient Reported Data: These data are based on data submitted by federal contract recipients to www.federalreporting.gov between Oct. 1 and Oct. 10, 2009. On Oct. 30, 2009, the final recipient federal contract data and the final data on grants and loans will be available. It is collected and updated quarterly.
Agency Reported Data: These data are based on weekly Financial and Activity Reports filed by federal agencies receiving Recovery Act Funds.
Funds Announced: Funds that have been publicly announced as available to entities outside of the federal government. Not all available funds are announced publicly. For example, the funds going to a project started prior to the Recovery Act that are commingled with the project’s Recovery funds will not be announced publicly before being made available to a recipient. The Funds Announced figure should not be viewed as the total funding that an agency has made available.
Funds Available (Obligation): The term used to describe when an agency informs the public of the release of money to recipients either immediately or in the future.
Funds Awarded: This is the amount of contract dollars that will be made available to recipients.
Funds Paid Out: Funds that have been released from a federal agency to a recipient.
Funds Received: The amount of money each recipient received from a federal award.
Recent Updates:
Idaho ranks No. 5 per capita in stimulus fund receipts, according to ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism Web site tracking the stimulus dollars. Idaho's $592.11 per capita spending puts Idaho behind two large and sparsely populated Western states, Alaska and Wyoming.
The Idaho numbers are skewed by the $468 million of nuclear cleanup money heading to the Idaho National Laboratory west of Idaho Falls. This public works project is estimated to create 515 direct jobs and 433 indirect jobs.
The money in the stimulus bill slated for transportation and infrastructure--a touch under $100 billion--is likely to be one of the stimulus’ biggest job-generators. Propublica has tracked these dollars per unemployment rate. Idaho has an unemployment rate of 5.7% and will receive %5,070.87 per unemployed worker.
The state Department of Education says Idaho is slated to receive $10 million through a federal grant program to help low-achieving public schools. The federal Title I program provides funding to help educate children from low-income families.The state Department of Education says Idaho got about $2 million last year in Title I school improvement grants to help public schools struggling to meet federal benchmarks under No Child left Behind.
This year, the grant money Idaho will receive as part of the federal stimulus package will increase that pool of money by fivefold. A federal stimulus summer jobs program that had youths doing everything from clerical work to public art for government agencies and nonprofits put 804 Idahoans—ages 14 to 21—to work this summer.
Political Debate
The website, http://www.accountablerecovery.org/states/idaho sums up the political climate in Idaho—“There has been a power struggle between the state legislature and Gov. Otter. The governor sought to use stimulus funds as political leverage to push through a project called Connecting Idaho that requires the sale of $125 million in bonds. He told the legislature that he would use stimulus money for this project if they did not approve the bond sales, killing ten other Idaho transportation projects. The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee has also been in disagreement with the governor over use of some of the funds, directing money towards an aquifer management plan rather than to additional highway work. Otter has also suggested that he will "save" $200 million in stimulus funds while simultaneously making cuts in education and reducing personnel costs by five percent.
The 2009 legislative session adjourned on May 8 with no plans to reconvene. Just before adjourning, the legislature passed HB 335, amending the state's unemployment insurance program to make the state eligible to receive ARRA unemployment insurance funds.”
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