About 22 percent of economic-stimulus funds have been paid out by the federal government, the Government Accountability Office reported today, but the job-creation data posted on the Web site Recovery.gov to highlight the effect of the $787-billion legislation, officially the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, has “significant reporting and quality issues that need to be addressed.” As suggested in a Chronicle article two weeks ago, state education departments have had difficulty reporting their data correctly, in part, the GAO said, because there was not a clear definition of “full-time equivalent” jobs, the measure states were supposed to use to measure job creation.
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