Speaking at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee, Wis., President Barack Obama unveiled a new stimulus package designed to jump-start the economy before the November elections, as polls show Democrats lagging.
Obama is not pressing for a payroll tax holiday — the most stimulative tax cut, as More…
Billions of dollars of stimulus funds created in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act remain in state coffers, Alec MacGillis reports at The Washington Post. On the downside, that means funds have not yet boosted the economy; on the upside, the funds remain to help boost the More…
John Judis at The New Republic joins a growing chorus of voices wondering if President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan goes far enough. We’re talking about a massive spending works plan here, and everyone from Judis to contributors to the Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics blog say even More…
This is the third part in a three-part series on a new economic stimulus package. For the first part, see “Can Green Industry Save the Economy?”; for the second, see “Building Out of Economic Chaos.”
As Washington policymakers joust over the need for more federal spending to More…
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