The Obama administration is committed to transparency, at least in theory. To track the mountains of cash we're spending on contracts, wars, programs, initiatives, and stimulus packages, the government launched USASpending.gov, a tool designed to help the public understand where our tax dollars are heading. And where is all that federal spending going? Not to USAspending.gov, where an estimated $1.3 trillion worth of data is missing or wrong. If only there were a website for tracking cash missing from the cash-tracking site....Read the FastCompany article here.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The Curious Case of USASpending.gov's Missing $1.3 Trillion
Hmmm $1.4 trillion dollars is quite a lot:
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