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There has been a huge uproar regarding the mistakes and misinformation provided to the US citizen at the Recovery.gov website.
Errors on government Web site make it difficult to track stimulus money
Dallas Morning News - November 18th
Government Web site says stimulus created jobs in nonexistent districts
Miami Herald - November 17th
XBRL has the potential to significantly improve the quality of the data reported. Simple business rules could easily catch bad information such as nonexistent congressional districts before the information ever gets to Recovery.gov. Check out the following whitepapers
Recovery.gov and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
NIEM XBRL Collaboration
The Value of XBRL in an XML World
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