'We need Clear Data': Clearspending 2010

 

Clearspending was created to analyze how well government agencies report their spending on USASpending.gov.

Created by the Sunlight Foundation, it revealed that more than $1.3 trillion in federal reporting data from 2009 is broken; i.e. not meeting one of three basic metrics: timeliness, completeness or accuracy.

They've just released their analysis for 2010 and Ellen Miller (Director of the Sunlight Foundation) says not much has changed:

OMB have failed to correct the problems we uncovered

Clearspending: 2010 edition - YouTube
Clearspending: 2010 edition - YouTube
Clearspending: 2010 edition - YouTube

For more, check ClearSpending.org and the Sunlight Foundation.

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