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Press Release - South Carolina state government has received and spent nearly $2.5 billion in federal Stimulus money through the end of May, Comptroller Richard Eckstrom reported Thursday.
The details for these expenditures are available on the Comptroller's Web site. To view individual expenditures listed for each state agency, click here: <http://cg.sc.gov/scstimulus/>. While 35 state agencies have received Stimulus money to date, two agencies have received nearly three fourths of the total which they are using to operate existing programs. These agencies are Department of Employment and Workforce (received $ 1.1 billion) and Department of Health and Human Services (received $ 661 million).
In September 2009, Eckstrom began posting individual stimulus expenditures on the Web, making South Carolina one of a small handful of states to do so. It was part of his office's statewide transparency initiative to post the spending of public money online.
"Here in South Carolina, most people were opposed to the stimulus," Eckstrom said. They should at least now be given the peace of mind that, with a few clicks of a mouse, they can see how that money is being used. Transparency is an important control against improper spending, and so we owe it to our children and grandchildren - who will be paying back this borrowed money - to make sure federal stimulus spending is done as openly as possible."
