The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis takes an insightful look at the way Washington spending tends to stay in Washington — a good portion of it goes to private contractors paid by federal agencies to find ways to spend stimulus funds.  Among the winners are giant consulting companies like Booz Allen Hamilton and small players like Simonson Management Services.

But these aren’t the jobs the stimulus is supposed to create.  V. Dion Haynes reports, also in the Post, on the rising jobless rate in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.  Government hiring is on the increase, but folks working in other sectors, like construction, are not getting jobs.  Looks like the stimulus is trickling up.

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