| #1 Sadly, I know something about how difficult it is to tie specific public projects to employment impacts. I also know about the difficulty of having sanity in a data base which is fed by thousands of volunteers with widely ranging interest, knowledge and inclination to 'bend' the input. The administration's efforts in building this kind of database should serve someday as a textbook example of DON'T DO THIS. The OMB has numerous guidelines on sampling, etc. (as part of the unfunded mandates act) and this effort violates a huge number of the provisions. |