The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - more commonly referred to as the economic stimulus package - is not government as usual.
 
I have never seen a bill as Web-based as this one, said Pembroke Consulting's Adam Fein in a recent MDM Webcast, "Economic Stimulus Package: Impacts & Opportunities for Distributors."
 
A big shift is the transparency being required of all the involved agencies - from cities and towns all the way up the channel to the federal government. Every detail of how the $787 billion will be spent is supposed to be made available, in advance, to the general public.
 
"What that means is that we have an unprecedented ability to track specific funding initiatives and ...