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Pick a state, then a town or region, and see the public projects documented there: what each one is, where it is, and the record it comes from.
Public projects · Bills and acts · Documented actions
Follow public projects back to the bills, acts and legislators behind them.
States@Work connects a state's public records. Residents can explore projects by state and community, follow the bills and acts behind them, and see the documented actions of the legislators who represent them.
Three ways in
Follow the bills and acts
Each project links to the legislation behind it, so you can read the act that authorized the money and see how it reached your community.
See documented actions by legislators
For the legislators who represent a community, see what the public record shows: the bills they sponsored or voted on, linked to the record itself.
Built with BondsAtWork
BondsAtWork supplies the financial records: what a state authorized, approved and financed, read from its public bond documents. States@Work connects those records to the legislative and local record, so a resident can go from a dollar amount to the act that authorized it, the community it is for, and the legislators who represent that community.
A real example: Bridgeport's West Side wastewater facility upgrade
The West Side Water Pollution Control Facility upgrade in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is documented in the approved record CWF 734-D1. This is how States@Work presents it.
- Project
- West Side Water Pollution Control Facility upgrade
- Community
- Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Planned amount
- $30 million, a planned amount. It is not a payment.
- What the record documents
- An intended-use plan.
- Not yet documented
- Funding, spending and completion. The record has no evidence for them, so States@Work says so instead of estimating.
Every stage stays separate
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Authorized
- 2
Allocated
- 3
Issued
- 4
Spent
- 5
Completed
A bond act authorizing money is not the same as a project being funded, and funding is not the same as spending. States@Work keeps these as separate events, and shows “no evidence” where a stage has no public document behind it. We publish findings that have passed review, not working files.
Where it stands
Connecticut has the deepest coverage today, with municipalities, legislator rosters and linked bill records. Louisiana has its first documented project. The remaining state profiles list the public sources we have found and are still reviewing.
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