Stimulus Top Scorers
The Power Grid
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:42:00
States across the country are rushing to demonstrate their ability to quickly get stimulus money into the economy, especially since further federal stimulus money could become available.
In raw numbers, New York has fared well, coming in seventh for most funding for highway and bridge projects out of all the states. When that funding is taken as a proportion of the overall allocation the state received for those projects, however, it lags in the middle of the pack, at 29th.
Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Ohio and Virginia have not lined up any funding. Oklahoma, meanwhile, has lined the highest proportion of its transportation infrastructure funding, at 66.2 percent, followed by Illinois, Maine and New Hampshire.
Here are the 10 states that have lined up the most dollars for highway and bridge projects so far and the overall amount of transportation infrastructure money they received:

Sources: ProPublica.org and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee
In raw numbers, New York has fared well, coming in seventh for most funding for highway and bridge projects out of all the states. When that funding is taken as a proportion of the overall allocation the state received for those projects, however, it lags in the middle of the pack, at 29th.
Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Ohio and Virginia have not lined up any funding. Oklahoma, meanwhile, has lined the highest proportion of its transportation infrastructure funding, at 66.2 percent, followed by Illinois, Maine and New Hampshire.
Here are the 10 states that have lined up the most dollars for highway and bridge projects so far and the overall amount of transportation infrastructure money they received:

Sources: ProPublica.org and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee










