Stimulus—How’s it Working?

Tue, February 17, 2009 - 12:28 PM

When it comes to measuring the impact of the $787 billion economic stimulus, the White House has one key unit they’ll be looking at – jobs.

Asked on CNN how the country will know if the plan is working, Melody Barnes, the White House domestic policy adviser, said, “We’ll start to see jobs being created.”

She said first the country will see fewer job losses. Barnes plugged the administration’s Web site, recovery.gov, as the place to watch the money go to work. The site is to demonstrate how the billions are spent and what impact they’re having through a clickable map of the states.

“This is the kind of transparence and accountability the president talked about during the campaign,” said Barnes, a Richmond native.

--Neil H. Simon