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[32] [33] Obama's campaign hired an ACORN affiliate for $800,000 to conduct a get-out-the-vote effort during that primary, [34] [35] but did not retain ACORN for the general presidential election. [34] [35] Throughout the election season, supporters of Republican candidates alleged that ACORN was responsible for widespread vote fraud.
A May 21, 2009, article in The Washington Post stated, "To build support for the stimulus package, President Obama vowed unprecedented transparency, a big part of which, he said, would be allowing taxpayers to track money to the street level on Recovery.gov..." But three months after the bill was signed, Recovery.gov offers little beyond news ...
On December 16, 2007, Ron Paul collected $6 million, more money on a single day through Internet donations than any presidential candidate to date, [15] [16] [17] though this was exceeded with a $10 million day in September 2008 by Barack Obama.
By JON C. OGG The election has come and gone: On Tuesday, President Obama won a second term, and the balance of power in Congress didn't shift too much either way. Now, the many investors who were ...
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Since then ...
Here's what the real reincarnation of JFK, according to SNL, has done for our wallets since entering office: The Dow Jones has gone from 7,949.09 to 8,016.95, a 0.9% increase during an earth ...
President Obama was first inaugurated in January 2009, in the depths of the Great Recession and a severe financial crisis that began in 2007. His presidency continued the banking bailout and auto industry rescue begun by the George W. Bush administration and immediately enacted an $800 billion stimulus program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which included a blend ...
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