on 2/28/2016 1:18 PM, Marglin, Stephen A. wrote:

      Dear Jim, I understand that the Center for Effective
      Government is about to end its maintenance of
      FedSpending.org website, where it has made recovery.gov
      ARRA files available to anyone interested. It would be
      a loss for future researchers if these data were no
      longer available. (As you doubtless know, the Feds
      closed down recovery.gov some time back.) Would the
      NBER consider taking over the site to keep it available
      for research? 
  
      Steve Marglin


In response to Prof Marglin's letter, we have imported the underlying 
database and some help files to the NBER website 

  http://www.nber.org/data/ARRA


We have not implemented the extraction software - users must download the 
entire datbase, unzip it, and read the tab-delimited files into whatever 
software they chose.

Daniel Feenberg
feenberg@nber.org
29 Feb 2016