Recovery.gov: How to Find Your Stimulus Money

March 11, 2009 — -- Andrew MacRae is worried. He's just started a new job, he's concerned about the economy -- and if his tax money is being used to make things better, he says he'd certainly like to know about it.

So he tried the Obama administration's new Web site, Recovery.gov, which was billed by the White House as a portal to explain where $787 billion in stimulus money will be spent. He says it did not deliver for him.

"It's not a bad Web site," said MacRae. "But it's not a tool to tell me where the money is being used."

MacRae, who lives in Boston, probably accounts for a few of the 150 million hits that the administration says the site has gotten since it went live last month.

But, like a lot of people, he found he did a lot of clicking around -- only to find that the money is not out there yet.

Eventually, the administration promises, there will be more. But in the meantime, here's what you'll find.

Tracking the Stimulus

"Within the next few weeks, we'll begin to present information about how EPA is implementing the Recovery Act in each region of the country," it says.