California's stimulus $$$ watchdog checks out job creation numbers and more
City Controller
How many jobs - really? In her position as first-in-the-nation Recovery Act Inspector General, Laura Chick is watching for waste, fraud and abuse in the spending of the estimated $50 billion in federal stimulus funds that California will receive through fiscal year 2010. Among the issues she is investigating is a job creation claim by California State University officials… she says the numbers should not have been reported because "they don't make sense."
Guests:
Laura Chick, Inspector General acting as the state watchdog over the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds as they are dispersed in California
- Patt Morrison for November 10, 2009
- If the government can’t get H1N1 vaccines right……..
- What's in your medicine cabinet…any alternatives?
- California's stimulus $$$ watchdog checks out job creation numbers and more
- Your taxpayer dollars….going out the back door in lawsuits & legal fees?
- A Country Called Amreeka: Muslims in America
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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