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In July 2010, the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) estimated that the stimulus had "saved or created between 2.5 and 3.6 million jobs as of the second quarter of 2010". [104] At that point, spending outlays under the stimulus totaled $257 billion and tax cuts totaled $223 billion. [105]
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–312 (text), H.R. 4853, 124 Stat. 3296, enacted December 17, 2010), also known as the 2010 Tax Relief Act, was passed by the United States Congress on December 16, 2010, and signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 17, 2010.
Speaking in Cleveland, President Barack Obama offered more details of his plan to get the nation's economic recovery back in gear. Facing polling data that shows his Democratic party may lose one ...
According to the Tax Policy Center, the Obama plan provides three times as much tax relief for middle-class families as the McCain plan. [235] Obama's plan includes a temporary "Making Work Pay" program, which gives a tax credit at 6.2% of earned income up to $400 for single workers (making less than $75,000/yr), and an $800 for married couples ...
President Barack Obama vigorously defended his administration's $787 billion stimulus package on its one-year anniversary Wednesday. The president said the initiative has saved or created at least ...
The Obama administration is not considering a second stimulus package as it seeks ways to jump-start the flagging U.S. economy, a White House spokeswoman said Thursday. Sponsored Links Obama said ...
Plans for a new $180 billion stimulus plan were announced by Obama in September 2010. [58] A renewed interest in Keynesian ideas was not limited to Western countries and stimulus plans were a common response to the crisis from nations across the globe. Stimulus packages in Asia were on a par with those in Europe and America. [59]
This comes to mind in the discussion of President Obama's biggest legislative accomplishment, the $787 billion stimulus bill -- formally called the American Recovery and Reinvestment.