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Where do these numbers come from?

Our lists of recipients and programs deal only with expenditures by the Treasury Department – in other words, taxpayer money. We've included all such money allocated by Congress, both the broader $700 billion TARP bill and the separate bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

But the Treasury hasn't been working alone – it's been putting up big money alongside the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Our entries for individual financial institutions and programs indicate when the Treasury has committed funds in conjunction with the Fed and/or FDIC, but for a complete accounting of the Fed's and FDIC's spending so far, see Subsidyscope.

Most of the data shown in our project comes from the Treasury Department. But in a few cases, we've gathered information from other government agencies or press releases and regulatory filings from bailout recipients.

If you've got more questions about how we do this, .

What You Can Do Here:

A complete list of where the money's going, from AIG to the smallest community bank
A map that charts all the bailed-out companies
A timeline of major bailout events
A running total of how much of the TARP bailout money has been committed
Graphical breakdowns and plain language descriptions of the Treasury Department's bailout programs without confusing government acronyms
A list of the banks that have returned the bailout money
A snapshot of how mortgage servicers are performing in the foreclosure prevention program.
The latest on the bailout from our blog and our links to the best bailout reporting

Steal Our Data

All of the data in this section is available for download – and you're free to reuse it so long as you give ProPublica credit, don't change any data, and don't sell it for money. (We're licensed under Creative Commons, which provides the legal details.)

You can download the data using the XML and CSV download links on all pages with tables. If there's sufficient interest we'll do a programmer's API. us if you're interested in the API and to let us know how you're using the data.

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Our Bailout Highlights

Bailout Breakdown: Losses Likely to Be Larger Than Treasury Estimates 12/11

Interactive Chart Shows Breakdown of Slow-Moving Loan Mod Program 12/11

Homeowners Getting Blame for Lack of Loan Mods, but Evidence Points to Banks and Servicers, Too 12/9

Bailout Balance Sheet December 2009: Taxpayers’ Revenues Grow, but So Do Losses 12/3

AIG May Soon Lose Crown as Biggest Bailout Debtor 12/1

GM Announces It Will Pay Back Gov’t Loan … With Gov’t Money 11/16

Govt’s Attempt to Push Transparency for Mortgage Mods Falls Short 11/13

Adding Up the Financial Rescue: Fall Edition 10/2

Why Authorities Haven’t Stopped the Foreclosure ‘Rescue’ Boom 9/24

About This Project

We're tracking where the bailout money is going. Our lead bailout reporter – and blogger – is ProPublica's . Lead developer is .

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. We strive to foster change through exposing exploitation of the weak by the strong and the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.

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