Fiscal Abandonment of West Baltimore...

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The Fiscal Abandonment of West Baltimore
Freddie Gray's neighborhood needs financial help,
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121742/fiscal-abandonment-west-baltimore
...Baltimore’s decades-long economic decline has made it more difficult for the city to help itself. And the recent recession only made things worse.

Who was responsible for making sure this neighborhood got its share of needed funds from the Obama Stimulus?

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Baltimore Received $1.8 Billion from Obama's Stimulus Law ...
http://www.freebeacon.com/ issues/baltimore-received-1-8-billion-from-obamas-stimulus-law/
The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama's stimulus law,

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What did the American Tax Payers get for the $1.8 billion stimulus ...
http://talk.baltimoresun.com/topic/260330-what-did-the-american-tax-payers-get-for-the-18-billion-stimul us-that-was-invested-in-baltimore/
Well, how does $1.8 billion for the 622000 people of Baltimore sound?

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$1.8 Billion Spent in Baltimore and the City Still Burned
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/its-never-enough-1-8-billion-spent-in-baltimore-and-the-city-still-burned
According to Recovery.gov, one of Baltimore's central ZIP codes, 21201, received the most stimulus funding in the city, a total of $837,955,866.

 

[NightHawkeye]

No good deed goes unpunished.

It's as if the millions of dollars simply went into private hands.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Free Beacon's assessment of this is wrong - not all of that money went to Baltimore City. Despite the state capitol being in Annapolis, many of the state government offices are in Baltimore City in the 21201 and 21202 zip codes, and an award given to a state office will show up as being given to one of those zip codes. As an example, the Free Beacon article links to this $136 million grant to the MD Dept of Education, but as you can see from the subawards, much of the money (roughly half, it looks like) went outside the city. Glancing over the rest of the awards in other zip codes, that looks to be the case for many of them, particularly the biggest ones.

 

[rambot]

Free Beacon's assessment of this is wrong - not all of that money went to Baltimore City. Despite the state capitol being in Annapolis, many of the state government offices are in Baltimore City in the 21201 and 21202 zip codes, and an award given to a state office will show up as being given to one of those zip codes. As an example, the Free Beacon article links to this $136 million grant to the MD Dept of Education, but as you can see from the subawards, much of the money (roughly half, it looks like) went outside the city. Glancing over the rest of the awards in other zip codes, that looks to be the case for many of them, particularly the biggest ones.

So a poorly researched article then?

 

[iluvatar5150]

So a poorly researched article then?

Imagine that.