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https://freebeacon.com/issues/baltimore-received-1-8-billion-from-obamas-stimulus-law/

The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.

President Obama claimed last Tuesday that if the Republican-controlled Congress would implement his policies to make "massive investments in urban communities," they could "make a difference right now" in the city, currently in upheaval following the death of Freddie Gray.

However, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found that the Obama administration and Democratically-controlled Congress did make a "massive" investment into Baltimore, appropriating $1,831,768,487 though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the stimulus.

According to Recovery.gov, one of Baltimore’s central ZIP codes, 21201, received the most stimulus funding in the city, a total of $837,955,866. The amount included funding for 276 awards, and the website reports that the spending had created 290 jobs in the fourth quarter in 2013.

Of this amount, $467.1 million went to education; $206.1 million to the environment; $24 million to "family"; $16.1 million to infrastructure; $15.2 million to transportation; $11.9 million to housing; and $3.1 million to job training.

ZIP code 21202 received $425,170,937, including a $136 million grant to "improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet State academic achievement standards."

Twenty-nine other ZIP codes listed in Baltimore city received a total of $568,641,684.

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https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/02/19/stimulus-funding-drives-750m-fed-data-center

The Social Security Administration will use fresh funding from the Obama administration's stimulus plan to build a $750 million high-security data center in the Baltimore area, federal officials tell the Baltimore Sun. The agency will dedicate $500 million of its $1 billion in new funding from the stimulus package to the data center project, with the other half going to staff hiring to reduce huge backlogs in disability claims.

The SSA is seeking a large parcel of land within 40 miles of Baltimore for the new data center, which will replace the agency's National Computer Center, which is 30 years old and "severely limited" in its capacity. The facility maintains earnings and benefits information for nearly every American worker, processing 75 million transactions per day. "All of our plans depend upon a strong, 21st century data center," the agency said in a recent document describing its needs.

The administration's plan to convert America's health care system to electronic records is a key driver in the data center storage requirements for the SSA, which is already maintains the nation's largest volume of electronic health records. Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue says that the existing facility in Woodlawn, Md. will probably run out of storage capacity by late 2012, but a new data center will likely not be completed before 2014. The agency is making plans to fill the gap until the new facility is completed, Astrue told the Sun.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/10/stimulus-814-billion-flop-deroy-murdock/

The stimulus has done less than nothing. In a new study, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee’s GOP staff discovered that total non-farm payroll employment fell in 17 of America’s 20 largest metropolitan areas between March 2009 and August 2010. Such jobs only grew in Baltimore, Boston, and — naturally — Washington, D.C. Even worse, in these 20 urban areas, “For every federal government payroll job created (+42,700), 13 private-sector payroll jobs (-556,900) have been lost.” Corresponding state and local governments also shed 522,800 jobs during this time.

https://www.newsweek.com/baltimore-burning-its-not-matter-money-we-tried-329515

President Barack Obama says "massive investments in urban communities" could "make a difference right now." Representative Elijah Cummings, who represents Maryland in Congress, says, "We have to invest in our cities and our children." And House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, who also represents the state, says, "But we're going to have to as a country invest if we're going to have the kinds of communities we want."

But the idea that we haven't been "investing" in Baltimore is nonsense.

Federal and state money has been pouring into the city for decades. From fiscal years 2003 to 2013 (the last year for which these reports are available), Baltimore received at least $2.4 billion in federal assistance and another $1.8 billion in state aid. The city also received roughly $1.8 billion in federal stimulus money, of which more than $1.4 billion has been spent so far. And this doesn't count the billions of dollars received directly by the people who live in Baltimore through various social welfare programs.