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Useful Stats I: Searchable Database of Academic Earmarks: 2008
By now, you've probably seen many of the articles covering the record number of earmarks academic institutions secured in the federal FY 2008 budget. The Chronicle of Higher Education identified more than 2,300 individual projects distributed across 920 institutions - mostly for research. The figure is 25 percent higher than the previous record and totals at least $2.25 billion. The wealth, though, is also more distributed this year than previously. The Chronicle released a table of the top 843 institutions at: http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i29/4529nonshared_earmarks.htm
As a service to the public, the esteemed publication has made available a free searchable database of all of the earmarks it identified. Records, searchable by state and agency, include the institution's name, the federal agency involved, the specific dollar amount of the noncompetitive award, a description of the project, and the congressional sponsors.
The database is available at http://chronicle.com/stats/pork/.