The Government Accountability Office on Wednesday released its second bi-monthly review of the Recovery Act, which looks at how sixteen states and the District of Columbia use and track their recovery funds. This report in particular focuses on Medicaid funding, highway infrastructure, the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, and the various accountability measures states and federal agencies have put in place. It's a long report (167 pages for the main report, plus another 736 pages [!] for the individual states appendixes), so we're still digesting it.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a non-profit fiscal policy institute, released a report yesterday questioning the accuracy of two recent reports from the American Family Business Foundation (AFBF) that claim repeal of the federal estate tax could create upward of 1 million jobs relatively cost free.