Congress passed a $787 billion economic stimulus on Feb. 10, 2009, to get money flowing into the economy. Has it helped?

The government says that only 13 percent of the 593,000 home-weatherization projects scheduled to be completed by 2012 under the stimulus package have been finished.

A half-page description has created a multibillion-dollar sweepstakes.

About $70 million of stimulus money helps bolster a program aimed at helping homeless children. A school district in Rocky Mount, N.C., shows how a little stimulus money can make a big difference in getting kids to school.

Almost $26 billion in stimulus money will go toward health information-technology efforts. Vice President Joe Biden has made a point of stressing that the money would help improve care by digitizing records.

The stimulus diverges from the Federal One program — it offers grants to arts programs through the National Endowment for the Arts while President Franklin Roosevelt’s arts funding gave money directly to artists.

A routine federal requirement that’s intended to preserve historic sites threatens to delay some stimulus projects around the country.