The money in the stimulus bill slated for transportation and infrastructure — a touch under $100 billion — –is likely to be one of the stimulus’ biggest job-generators. But we crunched the numbers and found that the higher a state’s unemployment, the less money it gets. þþSo say the journalists at ProPublica. (They said it last week, but we just saw the story.)þþVermont, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas and West Virginia and all have relatively low unemployment rates, and yet all are getting large lots of money. Be sure to check out ProPublica’s interactive maps and sortable charts. þ
Source: NY Times
