Sentences with phrase «dollar economic stimulus packages»

To fight the negative economic spiral, President Bush signed into law a $ 168 billion dollar economic stimulus packages, paid out in the form of tax rebates.

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In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce a new economic stimulus package of about 2 trillion yen (about 17.8 US dollars) this year, according to local media reports in Japan.

If you go back to 2009, we had a one - trillion - dollar stimulus package that was said to be inflationary and was going to boost economic growth, but yet we still had this very poor expansion and little inflation except for intermittent bouts here and there, largely from highly - priced inelastic goods.

These potential economic gains from improved schools should be compared to the huge political fights in the U.S. over a stimulus package of one trillion dollars, or one hundredth of the magnitude of the gains we are leaving on the table from ignoring the achievement in our schools.

The New York City - based Foundation Center has launched a Web portal to help the philanthropic community leverage federal education dollars, particularly the new grants available as part of the economic - stimulus package.

Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools through the federal economic - stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

Both have already announced big economic - stimulus packages to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into public - works and other labor - intensive projects, many related to boosting energy supplies or cutting energy waste.