2009-08-31propublica.org

"The Hill reports that while stimulus funds are being used to create a nationwide map showing where broadband access is needed most, that map won’t be finished until about half of the $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money has already been spent. As a result, a number of public-interest groups are worried that the government is spending stimulus money too quickly. “We’re spending a lot of money very quickly under the stimulus act, but we don’t have the data to spend that money the right way,” the research director at Free Press, a public-interest group, told The Hill."



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