Fix Needed for Spending Data

The Sunlight Foundation said on Tuesday that it launched Clearspending.com, a site that will analyze data from USAspending.gov.

In a presentation at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, the Sunlight Foundation's co-founder Ellen Miller said you "can't trust any of the aggregate information you get from [USASpending.gov] . . . . The government says its working on fixing it but all we get are redesigned websites."

Miller said that for fiscal 2009 alone, Sunlight found more than $1.3 trillion in broken reporting.