S.C. Stimulus Revenue Passes $600 M
September 23, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC – September 23, 2009 – Comptroller Richard Eckstrom today reported that state agencies have received more than $600 million in federal stimulus funds so far:
- Dept. of Health and Human Services, $372.5 million
- Employment Security Commission, $93.0 million
- Dept. of Social Services, $66.6 million
- Dept. of Public Safety, $23.2 million
- Dept. of Education, $18.8 million
- Governor’s Office, $13.9 million
- Dept. of Commerce, $7.3 million
- Dept. of Health and Environmental Control, $3.2 million
- Dept. of Transportation, $1.0 million
- Lt. Governor’s Office, $419 thousand
- Vocational Rehabilitation, $194,000
- Budget and Control Board, $19.0 thousand
Total: $600.1 million
Eckstrom issued the following statement:
What’s clear to me is that the economic downturn was used as an excuse to spend borrowed money on things that don’t help the economy. Too much is going toward expanding government, and too little is going toward things like roads and bridges and putting people back to work.
Unfortunately, we’re not even the ones who’ll be repaying the debt from this spending; the federal government structured that debt for our kids and grandkids to repay. It’s for that reason we have a special obligation to follow these stimulus dollars to ensure they’re spent with transparency and accountability, and to guard against fraud or mismanagement. We owe it to future generations. We’re eating their seed corn.
South Carolina is one of the first states to report individual stimulus expenditures on the Web. To view these individual expenditures grouped by state agencies and by categories, visit www.cg.sc.gov and click the red Stimulus Spending Transparency button at the left of the page.
