Tracking stimulus money

More than $2.7 billion in federal stimulus money has been awarded to the major local government agencies in Los Angeles over the past year, but no one can say with any confidence how many jobs have been created with those funds. Daily News.

The stimulus dollars were expected to bring in at least 27,000 jobs to the region, including temporary or part-time work, but no local agency can say for sure how many have been actually generated since the federal legislation passed in February 2009.

Laura Chick, the state's inspector general charged with overseeing how the money is spent, said in part it is still too early to assess.