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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 ...
In June 2009, dissatisfied with the pace of economic stimulus, Obama called on his cabinet to accelerate the investment. [45] By late 2013, the Federal Government had disposed of (re-privatized) all of its investments in Chrysler and GM. As of late 2016, taxpayers had recovered $71 billion of the $80 billion invested in the automobile industry. [2]
This tax holiday was intended as an economic stimulus by Obama and the Democrats, [3] with the value of boosting the disposable income of American families. [3] It would not worsen the Social Security program's financial strength, as the shortfall would be made up from general revenues. Some Republicans thus criticized the idea for increasing ...
President Barack Obama's plan to get the U.S. economy going has a strong focus on creating well-paid jobs. Two of the bills he's recently signed, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA ...
In laying out details for his new economic stimulus program Wednesday, President Barack Obama regained his political swagger and ramped up his criticism of Republican leaders for failing to ...
A stimulus package is most often a government program providing economic stimulus. Examples in the United States include the Economic Stimulus Appropriations Act of 1977; the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008; the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the CARES Act in 2020 and American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
The U.S. paid out $872.5 billion in enhanced unemployment payments. There were also two rounds of stimulus checks many Americans received in 2020 — one worth up to $1,200 and a second check ...
The bill was a counter-proposal to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 introduced by President Barack Obama. [1] HR 470 proposes to stimulate the economy without new government spending by implementing a permanent five-percentage point income tax cut for all taxpayers; it also would make permanent current capital gains and dividend tax rates at 15% (current law will allowing ...