The Social Security Administration, SSA, says “the information shown on www.recovery.gov under Agency Reporting incorrectly lists the Ticket to Work grants as ARRA funded, which they are not.”
The “Ticket to Work Grant” is a $300,000 grant awarded to the Ohio Legal Rights Service, OLRS, by the SSA. Ohio Watchdog followed this particular grant to monitor where [...]

The Social Security Administration, SSA, says that a $300,000 grant given to the Ohio Legal Rights Service, OLRS, was not funded by the Recovery Act.  But, according to www.recovery.gov that same grant was “agency reported” to them by the SSA as having been funded with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, money.
Several individuals at the Ohio Legal [...]

Last month, www.recovery.gov listed 28 congressional districts in Ohio as having received stimulus money. After much media scrutiny the most recent state/territory summary for Ohio lists the correct number of congressional districts in Ohio, 18, and a category named “unassigned congressional district.” While the phantom districts have “disappeared,” and are now lumped into a single category, [...]

The plan for the distribution of more than 3.5 million compact fluorescent light bulbs to Ohioans is not finished yet. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, PUCO, extended the deadline for receiving a plan from FirstEnergy from November 30, 2009 to December 15, 2009.
PUCO spokesman Matt Butler said, “the company had originally came in last [...]

After the income tax increase passed in Columbus, Ohio this summer, a Reform and Accountability Committee was established to monitor spending of the additional money coming into the city. Ernie Shannon spoke with the chair of the committee, Tom Hoaglin, and several union leaders to see how the first months of increased income tax [...]

Athens County Democratic Party Chair Susan Gwinn is facing two charges of election-related bribery.  The charges stem from her alleged involvement in a plan to pay students at Ohio University $5 for every voter they brought out in November’s election.
It all began with an e-mail sent out by the Vice President of Ohio University’s College Democrats [...]

There are only 18 Congressional Districts in Ohio, and this time www.recovery.gov agrees. The most recent state/territory summary page for Ohio lists information for all 18 districts as well as “unassigned congressional district(s).”

Earlier this week, the website, which has an $84 million budget, listed 10 additional congressional districts in Ohio that received federal stimulus [...]

The average cost to create or retain a job in Ohio with stimulus money is $294,885.07. This is according to the most recent state/territory summary at www.recovery.gov. The site show 28 congressional districts in Ohio that have received stimulus dollars; 10 of those districts do not exist.
Of the 18 congressional districts that do exist in Ohio; [...]

The federal stimulus package has created or saved just under 30,000 jobs in 440 congressional districts that do not exist. According to watchdog.org that would double the size of the House of Representatives.
All of the information can be found on www.recovery.gov, a website that operates on an $84 million budget. New Mexico Watchdog broke the story [...]

More than 80% of the jobs created or retained thanks to federal stimulus money are located in Central Ohio. All of the top 30 recipients are located in the public sector.