Use this wiki to share documents (fact sheets, guides for implementation,
model legislation, etc.) your organization has produced relating to the states and the stimulus with
fellow advocates who are also producing and distributing resources for states on
the federal stimulus package. View shared files or upload new documents by clicking on the Attachments link below. To send an email to all the advocates who are
producing/gathering/distributing resources, send an email to the list-serve at
stimulusresources@googlegroups.com.
(To join the list-serve, send an email to PSN Outreach Coordinator Marisol Thomer at mthomer@progressivestates.org.)
Oregon House Bill 2037,
model bill to implement transparency on job creation -- would collect detailed information on the contract terms,
location, hours worked and wages paid for all jobs created under each
individual contract, along with aggregating the data for all statewide
contracts by contractor and agency and making the data publicly
available on the Internet.
Governors to track stimulus money - 2/10/09 article by Stateline.org covering how governors are preparing to manage and track state funds
School Districts Will Benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (House Cmte on Education & Labor) - This landing page has links to documents by the Congressional Research Service that estimate how much money each state will receive from certain
aspects of the final American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - specifically, under the bill’s following program allocations: State Stabilization
Funds, Title I, Title I School Improvement, IDEA, McKinney-Vento
Homeless Education Assistance, Education Technology, and Child Care and
Development Block Grant Discretionary Funding. Has state by state and school district level allocations for Title 1 and IDEA.
Critical Care: The Economic Recovery Package and Medicaid. What states have enacted or are proposing to cut to Medicaid and CHIP, along with state-level estimates of
the economic impact of the temporary increase in federal Medicaid
funding proposed in the President's stimulus package. (Families USA- January 2009)
Unemployed and Uninsured in America
analyzes the health coverage status of unemployed workers with low and
moderate incomes, including national and state-level data. (Families USA report- February
2009)
How States and Cities Can Prepare for the Stimulus
- Apollo Alliance - Memo summarizes environment-related elements of the
House version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, answers a
few frequently asked questions, and provides a brief discussion of some
strategies for taking advantage of the stimulus package at the state
and local level
State Broadband Authority Model Legislation (Progressive States Network) -- legislation for states to create inclusive councils to guide broadband deployment in their states
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