Federal Stimulus Money at Work
Vermont has been awarded $991 million in contracts, grants, and loans since February 2009 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as federal stimulus funding. According to the latest information from Recovery.gov, the official website for tracking ARRA funds, nearly sixty percent of the Vermont awards had been paid out by the end of 2010.
The town2town map shows where the money went in Vermont, as reported by award recipients. The totals for each town are based on the “primary place of performance” for the work reported. In some cases, the money was awarded for a project, such as road reconstruction, within the town’s borders. In other cases, it went directly to the municipality or school district. Funding to organizations that serve several communities may be assigned to only the recipient’s town (money listed for Montpelier or Waterbury, for example, includes ARRA funding awarded to state agencies). Statewide projects and projects identified by the recipients as multi-town are not included in the town amounts on the map; they appear in the accompanying table.
Data source: www.recovery.gov
