Didn't the fact that Palin proved much smarter than Obama on predicting the first failed
stimulus jobs bill show you anything?
Not exact matches
The administration inserted protectionist «Buy American» language in the President's
jobs bill in September, despite Canada's objections to similar language in his
stimulus bill two years ago.
[259][260] The CBO released a report stating that the
stimulus bill increased employment by 1 — 2.1 million, [260][261][262][263] while conceding that «It is impossible to determine how many of the reported
jobs would have existed in the absence of the
stimulus package.»
The word «
stimulus» now has a clear pejorative tone in American politics, such that no supporter of short term
stimulus legislation can actually use the word (hence we get Obama's «
jobs bill»).
He praised Maffei for voting for the
stimulus bill as well as tax credits for small businesses and incentives to manufacturers who bring
jobs back to the United States.
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Some of the proposals being floated by the caucus include: redirecting existing
stimulus and TARP money to
jobs programs and pressing for a new
jobs bill, which they're careful not to call a «
stimulus.»
The Obama administration's
stimulus bill included language for correcting teacher distribution problems, and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has expressed interest in incentivizing teaching
jobs in less desirable schools.
As a former Clinton energy aide stressed to me, it was arguably a mistake to sell the loan guarantees as
job - creating
stimulus (the program was expanded as part of the 2009
stimulus bill).
Yet while we have suffered an economic crisis produced by our own financial sector — losing millions of
jobs, trillions in economic output, and further damaging our industrial base — China has largely shrugged off the global recession with high levels of growth and self - financed
stimulus, all while purchasing billions of Treasury
bills to finance our own deficit.
President Obama's 2009
stimulus bill provided more than $ 50 billion, or six percent of all spending, to spur renewable energy deployment and clean energy industries and
jobs.
And a new report gives further evidence to confirm this fact: 900,000 green
jobs are en route to being created by the
stimulus bill.
Indeed, a recent study by McGraw Hill predicts that the green - building market, both residential and commercial will double from $ 36 - $ 49 billion to $ 96 - $ 140 billion by 2013, with some of that money flowing from the $ 83 billion targeted for green
jobs in the
stimulus bill.