Read the post A Snapshot of Government-wide Contracting for FY 2021 (Interactive Dashboard) August 25, 2022 Note: This blog post was updated to clarify that the decrease in spending of $54 billion was...
Read the post Federal Spending Data Quality—Is This As Good As It Gets? Auditors Say It Can Be Better July 26, 2022 Federal agencies spent $10.1 trillion in fiscal year 2021. But $131.8 billion of that was not...
Read the post USAspending.gov Offers Insight on Government Spending, But Data Quality and User Awareness Impact Its Usefulness February 03, 2022 The federal government spent more than $9 trillion last fiscal year, of which a large portion was...
Read the post Freedom of Information Act—How Open is Public Access to Government Data? March 18, 2021 The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) establishes a legal right for individuals and organizations to...
Read the post USAspending.gov Contains a Treasure Trove of Information, But How Reliable Is It? August 13, 2020 August 14 is the deadline for agencies, including those that led the federal response to the COVID...
Read the post The DATA Act: Checking in on Spending Transparency November 13, 2019 Federal agencies spend over $4 trillion a year. But how that money is spent isn’t always easy to...
Read the post The Legacy of the Recovery Act February 21, 2019 Ten years ago this month, Congress responded to the most serious economic crisis since the Great...
