Where is the money now?
It’s in the fresh asphalt on interstates and local roads. It’s in the fencing around school playgrounds and the serving lines in school cafeterias. It’s in the paycheck of teachers and police officers who would have lost their jobs without it.
Some of the money is en route. Some is promised. Some is a possibility.
The full picture of stimulus funds to the region is difficult to assemble, with no single public source tracing all stimulus dollars to local recipients. The Bristol Herald Courier analyzed data maintained by Virginia and Tennessee, which each report allocating more than $1 billion in stimulus dollars to local governments.
The analysis reveals wide disparities between neighboring governments, highlighting the different approaches some have taken to applying for the funds. Interviews with local officials reflect their ambivalence about the stimulus funds – a mixture of gratitude and frustration – as they scramble to operate governments on vastly trimmed budgets.
Read the series of articles here: An Unequal Disbursement of Stimulus Funding in Tennessee?
Where the Money Goes: Federal Stimulus Speding in the Mountain Empire
A Cushion and a Stimulus: Federal Grants, Loans Blunt Recession’s Impact
Sullivan To Use Stimulus Funds For New Lighting
Tennessee / Virginia Stimulus Funds Database
Using numbers provided by the State of Tennessee and the Commonwealth of Virginia TriCities.com has compiled a list of recovery funds by county and/ or state agency. Some of these numbers have be changed, as in the case of Virginia's numbers which were separated out into several categories. These have been lumped together into simpler categories of Transportation, Education, Energy, Agriculture, Arts, Business and Commerce, Community Development, Disaster Funds, Employment / Training and Jobs, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health, Housing, Social Services and Law, Justice and Safety. For example, money given to Virginia and earmarked as "Weatherization" would appear in the Energy category.
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View Stimulus Dollars on the Map
Data on the map below may be incomplete, according to the latest update and information available through Google Maps. Information is current as of Sept. 1, 2009. All information below is drawn from our stimulus database, searchable above.
View Stimulus Dollars in Southwest Va. and East Tennessee in a larger map
