From Stateline.org:

Under the stimulus legislation, states will have to account for every job created because that’s the whole point. Obama is hoping the stimulus will create or save more than over three million jobs, and he wants the documentation to back that up. States will also be required to detail how they spent their federal stimulus money and how long it took to complete the project. All the information will be posted on a federal Web site; several states also are creating their own Web sites. That’s all new, too.

“State leaders face real change, as promised by President Obama. States will need to collect data from agencies, from contractors, from subcontractors, that they have never collected before,” said Nathan Newman, interim executive director of the Progressive States Network, a research group based in New York whose members include many state policymakers.

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