Los Angeles Times Article RatingAs local governments spend billions in pandemic relief, some neglect to report specifics
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80% ReliableGood
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "But Republicans and fiscal conservatives have questioned whether the spending is necessary, noting that most states rebounded quickly from an initial tax plunge during the pandemic to post large budget surpluses." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Counting the federal money as replacement funding for government services shouldn't relieve local officials from describing what they did with it -- even if it just went toward salaries or office supplies, said Sean Moulton, senior policy analyst at the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan -- passed in 2021 by a Democratic-led Congress and signed by President Biden -- contained $350 billion in flexible aid for states, territories, tribes, counties, cities and towns." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "The Biden administration says the money was intended to provide communities immediate aid amid the health crisis as well as a longer-term boost." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Although the Left claimed their $2 trillion bill was designed to fight COVID, they wasted hundreds of billions of Americans' hard-earned tax dollars on ridiculous things, Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement to the AP." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
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56% : But Republicans and fiscal conservatives have questioned whether the spending is necessary, noting that most states rebounded quickly from an initial tax plunge during the pandemic to post large budget surpluses.48% : Counting the federal money as replacement funding for government services shouldn't relieve local officials from describing what they did with it -- even if it just went toward salaries or office supplies, said Sean Moulton, senior policy analyst at the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.