For now, there's still $ 17 billion in
stimulus money left to send out the door, and $ 2.2 billion in niche handouts, of the sort the Conservatives have been using to micromanage the electorate for the past four years.
Not exact matches
And cheaper gas at the pumps, courtesy of lower oil prices, will come as a form of fiscal
stimulus for consumers in both the U.S. and Canada,
leaving more
money in their pockets to spend on other things.
Because that's the whole premise of like economic
stimulus, right, is we're going to jump - start this son of a bitch, and it's going to get going so fast [that] it will start throwing off
money left and right, and you [won't] have to, we'll get all our
money back times three.
Rather than press Congress to pass a law to replace No Child
Left Behind (NCLB), the Obama administration used federal
stimulus money to encourage states to accept its policy preferences and waivers from NCLB's penalties to ensure those policies were implemented.
With little
stimulus money expected to be
left for construction after states make up for recession - driven budget cuts, districts are scrambling for some $ 24 billion or more in zero - or low - interest bonds under the $ 787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The funding is from two federal sources, including $ 1.75 million under the No Child
Left Behind act and the remaining $ 3.45 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as
stimulus money.
Locally, the Madison Metropolitan School District will get $ 50,000 in No Child
Left Behind
money and $ 80,000 in
stimulus money.
And cheaper gas at the pumps, courtesy of lower oil prices, will come as a form of fiscal
stimulus for consumers in both the U.S. and Canada,
leaving more
money in their pockets to spend on other things.