Implementing the Stimulus Bill Turns Out to be Difficult

Arizona, like many other states, is struggling on how they will implement parts of the “Stimulus Bill” passed by Congress this year. The bill has requirements on the states to track how the money is being spent, job creation and so on. The Arizona Capital Times has an article discussing the result of a Federal audit of that state’s implementation so far. None of the issues discovered are unique to Arizona as all of the other states are facing the same issues. In fact the more money a state gets the bigger these kind of problems will be. Arizona faces two big problems. First a lack of personnel available to actually implement the tracking requirements. This is due to the…

Source: BNET