The map was created by joining the jobs by congressional districts to the shapefile of 110th Congress downloaded from Census Cartography Boundary Files website
. Also added the U.S. representative name and party affiliation baed on the makeup of the 111th Congress. Thus the map shows two color schemes, the bluish tinge show Democratic Congressional Districts and red-brown tinge represents Republican congressional district. The darker tinges indicate higher number of jobs.
Among other online sources, the job data for the map came from
[edited] a website of Pine City, MN radio stations. Among the sources it mentiones
"The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." January 9, 2009
Romer, Christina (Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and
Jared Bernstein (Chief Economist for the Vice President.
When one looks at the "Document Property" tab the following information shows:
Title: EFFECTS OF STIMULUS PACKAGE ON EMPLOYMENT BY STATE
Author: Christina and David Romer
Subject:
Keyword:
Created: 2/12/2009 11:52:54 AM
Modified:
Application: Writer
It appears legit but not sure why it is not listed on the White House web-page.
Created February 14, 2009 at 09:59 AM
Updated September 27, 2010 at 01:07 AM
