TRACKING COVID RELIEF

SPENDING
Mellissa Chang
Research Analyst
Good Jobs First
mellissa@goodjobsfirst.org
Violation Tracker

Covid Stimulus Watch

Pandemic Responsibility Accountability

Committee (PRAC)

Overcoming Gaps in Data

VIOLATION TRACKER
https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker
What is Violation Tracker?

■ Wide-ranging database of corporate crime and misconduct

■ Resolved cases in which a company was found guilty or reached a settlement
■ Monetary penalty of $5,000 or more
■ Data from official government sources
Summary Stats
480,000 cases

300 federal and state regulatory

agencies

$660 billion in penalties

3,300 parent companies linked

Major Penalty/Offense Categories (not
exhaustive)
Business
Labor Health & Safety Environmental
Corruption
• Wage theft • OSHA • Air/water • False Claims
• Discrimination • Nursing home pollution Act violations
• Unfair Labor violations • Hazardous • Bribery
Practice • Transportation waste • Price-fixing
backpay • Product, • Consumer
awards energy & food fraud
• Retirement safety • Tax evasion
plan abuses

Full details on offense categories: https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker-offense-groups

 Lists every single parent in
Accessing Data Violation Tracker

Option 1: Summary Pages

■ Parent company
overall totals
■ Parent headquarters
■ Parent Industry
■ Offense/penalty
category
■ Agency
Parent Summary Page

All records associated

with parent company
are below summary
Individual Entry Page
 Option 2: Search
■ Company ■ Penalty ■ Presidential
name amount Administratio
n
■ City and ■ Level of
state* government ■ Ownership
■ Parent ■ Agency ■ NAICS Code
industry
■ Year
■ Offense
group/type

*Notes on location searches: Not all agencies provide location information.

Records from the following agencies have the best location data available:

 Occupational Safety and Health Administration

 Mine Safety and Health Administration
 Environmental Protection Agency
 Wage and Hour Division
 National Labor Relations Board (back pay cases)
 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Search Results Contact us directly if
you need more than
10,000 records.
COVID STIMULUS
WATCH
https://covidstimuluswatch.org/
Summary Stats
22 Programs

1.37 million entries

• 1.3 million loans

• 33,000 grants
• 3,000 contracts

$892 billion in spending

“List of Awards” Search
 Best for simple
company or program
searches
 Accountability issue
filter
 Parent sector search
only available for
entries that are linked
to a parent company
 Search results do not
include refunds
“List of Awards” Search Results
Contact us directly if
 Accountability Issues you need more than
5,000 records.
 Employment
 Tax
 Contracting
 Environmental/safety
 Consumer
protection/financial
misconduct
 CEO pay inequality
 CEO pay & pre-pandemic
employees from SEC filings
 Individual Entry Page vs. Parent Entry Page

Total value of all awards

Individual
Entry Details

Parent
Company All records
Details associated
with parent
OPTION 1: SUMMARY PAGES
 Advanced Search: Option 2
Default company search
is “Starts With”

Other search options

available:
• “Contains any word” -
contains any of the words
entered
• Contains all words –
contains all words
entered in the order you
enter them
Advanced Search: Option 2
Wild card search
Symbol Description Example
bl% finds bl, black, blue, and blob
% Represents zero or more characters bl%k finds block, black
Note: wildcard includes spaces
_ Represents a single character h_t finds hot, hat, and hit

Also works on the

Violation Tracker
search
Advanced Search: Option 2
Location Search
• Not all programs have location information
• Most programs at least have state information
• Facility city & zip – “equals to” search
Advanced Search: Option 2
Location Search
• PPP, EIDL, Federal Contracts
• City, state, zip, congressional district
• Payroll Support Program (airlines), Provider Relief Fund (general & high-
impact), Main Street Loan Program
• City & state
What’s New

■ PPP
– Exact PPP loan amounts
– Data released monthly; CSW updates PPP monthly
■ https://data.sba.gov/dataset/ppp-foia
■ Education Data
– Charter school and private school recipients
■ Funding from Consolidated Appropriations Act
– Payroll Support Program II (airlines)
– Higher Ed Emergency Relief Fund
PANDEMIC RESPONSE
ACCOUNTABILITY
COMMITTEE (PRAC)
https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/track-the-money/funding-charts-
graphs/coronavirus-relief-fund
About the PRAC

■ Oversight committee composed of 22 Inspectors General

■ Mission: promote transparency and support independent oversight of the funds provided
by the CARES Act and other related pandemic relief legislation
■ Led by DOJ IG Michael Horowitz
• GAO reports
■ Hub for IG, GAO, and PRAC reports
• IG reports
■ Provides access to pandemic relief spending • PRAC reports
• OMB reports
– State and local spending
• Ongoing work
– PPP • Criminal and civil case re
– Spending & obligations for federal agencies sults
• Recommendations
State and Local Spending – The
Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF)
■ $150 billion for state and local governments
■ Money generally transferred to the state government, but local governments serving a
population of at least 500,000 had the option to receive their allocation directly from
Treasury
Drilling Down into State Spending
Treasury • The furthest you can drill down to is
the sub-recipient level
• When a company is listed at the sub-
recipient level, it generally falls into
Florida
Department of two categories:
• Prime Recipient
Financial • The company received money
Services from a state relief program
• The state purchased goods or
Broward services from the company
County • When the sub-recipient is a locality,
• Sub-recipient
$3 million general information about how the
money was spent is available, but
disbursements to companies for
Bristol Bay grant programs or for the purchase
Associates
• Sub-recipient
of goods and services will not show
$85,000 up.
OVERCOMING GAPS
IN DATA
Linking Data to Bridge the Gap

■ Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notices:

– Certain companies have to provide advance notice of layoffs to workers and the
state
– Data disclosed at state level
– Ex: Florida WARN notices
– Workplace Warnings report:
https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/Workplace%20Warning-%20The%20need%20for%20a%20
new%20and%20improved%20PPP.pdf

■ National Provider Identifier (NPI) Registry

– https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/
– Contains DBAs
– Full database download contains some ownership/affiliation information
Linking Data to Bridge the Gap

■ HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Hospital Compendium

– https://www.ahrq.gov/chsp/data-resources/compendium.html
– Hospital System Compendium
– Hospital-System Link File
– Group practice-System Link File
■ Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
– https://www.ffiec.gov/NPW
– Current and historical financial and structure information on banks and other
financial institutions
– Branches, ownership, holding company