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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. L. 111–5 (text)), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009.
Obama presents his first weekly address as President of the United States on January 24, 2009, discussing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Job Growth by U.S. president, measured as cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of term. 2016 was the first year U.S. real (inflation-adjusted) median household income surpassed 1999 levels.
Barack Obama sponsored 147 bills from January 4, 2005 until November 16, 2008. Two became law. [1] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Nunn Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006.
President Obama and Congress approved the recent $700 billion stimulus package for one crucial reason: to provide jobs.Now, states and other recipients of this windfall are struggling to launch ...
While the stimulus bill is still a work in progress, there are a number of provisions in both bills that you can count on passing. But the reality for the average Jane or Joe is that there's not ...
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 ...
On February 17, 2009, Obama signed into law a $787 billion economic stimulus bill that included spending for health care, infrastructure, education, various tax breaks and incentives, and direct assistance to individuals. The tax provisions of the law, including a $116 billion income tax cut, temporarily reduced taxes for 98% of taxpayers ...
The good news is that something resembling an economic stimulus package is ready to go President Obama's desk. The bad news is that it contains significant amounts of Stimulus bill is only 64% ...