Economic Stimulus Package in Detail
Posted by admin in Business on February 20th, 2009 | 9 responses
President Barack Obama recently signed the $787 billion Economic Stimulus package. This package aims to increase GDP growth by 1.4% to 3.8% by spending $185 billion in 2009. The aim is to shorten the length and get out of recession as soon as possible.
Many people are asking where exactly are the money going. Below are the details.
Economic Stimulus Package Details
| Category | Description | Cost($millions) | Total |
Estimated outlays |
| Farming | Repairs, security improvements and rental payments at Department of Agriculture | $24 | ||
| Farming | Repairs and security improvements at Agricultural Research Service | $176 | ||
| Farming | Salaries for staff to modernize IT system at Farm Service Agency | $50 | ||
| Farming | Funding for watershed and flood prevention projects | $290 | ||
| Farming | Funding for watershed rehabilitation | $50 | ||
| Farming | Loans to rural homeowners | $200 | ||
| Farming | Guaranteed loans for rural community facility building | $130 | ||
| Farming | Guaranteed loans for rural businesses | $150 | ||
| Farming | Grants for rural waste and waste disposal | $1,380 | ||
| Farming | Broadband grants to rural communities | $2,500 | ||
| Farming | Oversight of Department of Agriculture spending | $25.5 | ||
| Food | Extra money for women, infants and children (WIC) special nutrition program | $500 | ||
| Food | Extra commodities for food banks | $150 | ||
| Food | Adult and child day care meals and snacks | $100 | ||
| Food | Crop insurance reinstatement for farmers who failed to keep up with payments, emergency loans and grants to farmers | $749 | ||
| Food | 13% increase in food stamp payments | $19,991 | ||
| Farming & Food | $26,466 | $26,431 | ||
| Commerce | Urban industrial core and rural economic recovery programs | $150 | ||
| Commerce | Extra money for Census | $1,000 | ||
| Commerce | Salaries and expenses for program to create broadband inventory map of the country | $350 | ||
| Commerce | Grants to provide wireless and broadband infrastructure to communities, including public computer centers and sustainable adoption of broadband service | $4,350 | ||
| Commerce | Coupons, education and consumer support for digital to analogue converter box program | $650 | ||
| Commerce | Oversight of Commerce Department spending | $6 | ||
| Science | National Institute of Standards and Technology research, including research into technology with high-growth potential and program giving technology to small and mid-size manufacturers | $220 | ||
| Science | NIST facilities construction and maintenance backlog | $360 | ||
| Science | Extra money for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facilities and research | $230 | ||
| Science | Extra money for NOAA satellite development including climate data sensors and modeling | $600 | ||
| Science | Grants to state and local law enforcement | $2,225 | ||
| Justice | Grants to rural law enforcement | $125 | ||
| Justice | Grants to law enforcement on southwest border | $40 | ||
| Justice | Grants for victims compensation programs | $100 | ||
| Justice | Grants for tribal law enforcement | $225 | ||
| Justice | Grants for state and local law enforcement to pursue Internet sex offenders | $50 | ||
| Justice | Grants to state and local law enforcement to hire extra police officers | $1,000 | ||
| Justice | Grants for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs | $225 | ||
| Justice | Costs of administering extra grant money | $10 | ||
| Science | NASA shuttle construction | $400 | ||
| Science | NASA climate research | $400 | ||
| Science | NASA aeronautics research | $150 | ||
| Science | NASA rebuilding of facilities damaged in 2008 floods | $50 | ||
| Science | NASA spending oversight | $2 | ||
| Science | National Science Foundation research | $2,500 | ||
| Science | Construction of new research equipment and facilities for NSF | $400 | ||
| Science | NSF education activities | $100 | ||
| Science | NSF spending oversight | $2 | ||
| Commerce, Science & Justice | $15,920 | $15,810 | ||
| Defense | Restoration and modernization of Defense facilities in U.S. and territories | $3,840 | ||
| Defense | Research and development of renewable energy generation for military | $300 | ||
| Defense | Improvements and reparations to military medical facilities in U.S. and territories | $400 | ||
| Defense | Department of Defense spending oversight | $15 | ||
| Defense | $4,555 | $4,531 | ||
| Environment | Flood control and water management construction, regulation and investigations | $4,125 | ||
| Environment | Mississippi River and tributary construction | $375 | ||
| Environment | Clean-up of ‘brownfield’ former industrial sites | $100 | ||
| Environment | Water reclamation and reuse projects | $1,000 | ||
| Energy | Home weatherization grants to low and middle-income families | $5,000 | ||
| Energy | Funding for Energy Star program offering tax credits to consumers purchasing new, efficient appliances | $300 | ||
| Energy | Advanced batteries manufacturing grants | $2,000 | ||
| Energy | Energy efficiency grants to states and local governments | $6,300 | ||
| Energy | Transport electrification grants | $400 | ||
| Energy | Funding for states and local governments to buy efficient alternative fuel buses and trucks | $300 | ||
| Energy | Research and development of renewable and efficient energy technology | $2,500 | ||
| Energy | Loan guarantees for standard renewables | $4,000 | ||
| Energy | Transmission loan guarantees | $2,000 | ||
| Energy | Fossil energy research and development | $1,000 | ||
| Energy | Research into low-emission coal plants | $800 | ||
| Energy | Grants for industrial carbon capture and energy efficiency improvement projects | $1,520 | ||
| Energy | Grants for identifying sites to store carbon dioxide emissions | $50 | ||
| Energy | Grants for training and research on safe storage of carbon emission\ | $20 | ||
| Energy | Administration of funding program | $10 | ||
| Energy | Physics research including high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences | $1,600 | ||
| Energy | High-risk research into energy sources and energy efficiency | $400 | ||
| Energy | Cleanup of former nuclear sites | $483 | ||
| Energy | Uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning | $390 | ||
| Energy | Cleanup of former nuclear defense sites | $5,127 | ||
| Energy | Money for federal power marketing administrations in electric power transmission systems | $6,500 | ||
| Energy | Construction and repairs for federal marketing administration | $10 | ||
| Energy | Modernization of the electric grid | $4,400 | ||
| Energy | Training of electric grid workers | $100 | ||
| Energy | Oversight of Energy Department spending | $15 | ||
| Environment & Energy | $50,825 | $50,775 | ||
| Government | Oversight of ‘making work pay tax credit’ and economic recovery payments | $7 | ||
| Government | Treasury grants to community financial services and economic development groups | $100 | ||
| Government | Construction, repair and energy alterations to federal buildings and facilities | $5,550 | ||
| Government | Purchase of fuel efficient vehicles for federal fleet | $300 | ||
| Government | Oversight of General Services Administration spending | $7 | ||
| Government | Costs to Internal Revenue Service of providing health coverage help to workers laid off because of outsourcing overseas | $80 | ||
| Government | Funding for Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board | $84 | ||
| Government | Small Business Administration loans to businesses | $651 | ||
| Government | Extra money for SBA administration of loans | $69 | ||
| Government | Oversight of SBA spending | $10 | ||
| Government | $6,858 | $6,707 | ||
| Homeland Security | Funding for departmental site security, IT infrastructure, furniture, fixtures and other costs for HQ | $200 | ||
| Homeland Security | Oversight of Homeland Security spending | $5 | ||
| Homeland Security | Construction, repairs and equipment for ports of entry to the U.S. | $420 | ||
| Homeland Security | Purchase and deployment of non-intrusive inspection systems for Customs and Border Protection | $100 | ||
| Homeland Security | Tactical communications equipment for Customs and Border Protection | $60 | ||
| Homeland Security | Border security fencing and technology | $100 | ||
| Homeland Security | Immigrations and Customs Enforcement information-sharing technology | $20 | ||
| Homeland Security | Explosive detection systems for airports | $1,000 | ||
| Homeland Security | Funding for Coast Guard acquisitions and construction, which cannot be used for pre-acquisition surveys or construction of a new polar icebreaker | $98 | ||
| Homeland Security | Repairing and removing bridges hazardous to marine navigation | $142 | ||
| Homeland Security | Grants for security upgrades to mass transit | $150 | ||
| Homeland Security | Grants for security upgrades to ports | $150 | ||
| Homeland Security | Competitive grants to upgrade state and local fire stations | $210 | ||
| Homeland Security | Extra emergency food and shelter funding for homeless | $100 | ||
| Homeland Security | $2,755 | $2,744 | ||
| Outdoors | Deferred maintenance on federal lands | $125 | ||
| Outdoors | Priority road, bridge and trail repairs | $180 | ||
| Outdoors | Wildland fire management | $15 | ||
| Outdoors | Wildlife refuge and fish hatchery construction, deferred maintenance, road maintenance and energy efficient visitors centers | $280 | ||
| Outdoors | National Park Service deferred maintenance | $735 | ||
| Outdoors | Preservation grants for historically black colleges and universities | $15 | ||
| Outdoors | Repairing facilities and equipment for USGS’ seismic, volcano, monitoring and stream gages | $140 | ||
| Outdoors | Repair of schools, detention centers, roads, bridges, housing, irrigation and dams on Indian reservations | $490 | ||
| Outdoors | Indian guaranteed loans | $10 | ||
| Outdoors | Interior spending oversight | $15 | ||
| Outdoors | Cleanup of hazardous and toxic waste sites | $600 | ||
| Outdoors | Cleanup of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks | $200 | ||
| Outdoors | Loans for communities to upgrade wastewater treatment systems and drinking water infrastructure | $6,400 | ||
| Outdoors | Environmental Protection Agency spending oversight | $20 | ||
| Outdoors | Renovation of forest roads, bridges and trails, remediation of abandoned mines, removal of barriers to fish and other critical habitat | $650 | ||
| Outdoors | Fire hazard reduction on federal and state lands | $500 | ||
| Indian reservations | Indian Health Facilities construction, maintenance and equipment | $347 | ||
| Indian reservations | Indian Health Facilities sanitation construction | $68 | ||
| Indian reservations | Indian Health Services IT development and deployment | $85 | ||
| Arts | Smithsonian Institution | $25 | ||
| Arts | Grants to fund arts projects in non-profit sector | $50 | ||
| Outdoors, Indian reservations, Arts | $10,950 | $10,545 | ||
| Labor | Grants to states for adult employment and training activities | $500 | ||
| Labor | Grants to states for youth training, including summer jobs | $1,200 | ||
| Labor | Grants to states for dislocated worker employment and training activities | $1,250 | ||
| Labor | Grants to states with highest unemployment numbers for employment and training | $200 | ||
| Labor | Funds to national reserve assistance for dislocated workers | $750 | ||
| Labor | Training high-risk youth in construction job skills | $50 | ||
| Labor | Community service program for low-income over-55s | $120 | ||
| Labor | Funding for states’ unemployment insurance and employment service agencies | $400 | ||
| Labor | Extra funds for department to manage enforcement of labor laws | $80 | ||
| Labor | Office of Job Corps construction and modernization of residential facilities for at-risk youth | $250 | ||
| Labor | Department of Labor spending oversight | $6 | ||
| Health and services | Renovation and health IT purchases for community health centers | $2,000 | ||
| Health and services | Training of nurses, primary care physicians, dentists to practice in underserved communities in the National Health Service Corps | $500 | ||
| Health and services | National Institutes of Health biomedical research | $9,500 | ||
| Health and services | NIH buildings and facilities repairs and renovations | $500 | ||
| Health and services | Funding for research comparing effectiveness of treatments funded by Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP | $1,100 | ||
| Health and services | Grants to states for childcare services for low-income working parents | $2,000 | ||
| Health and services | “Head Start” programs for low-income preschoolers | $1,000 | ||
| Health and services | “Early Head Start” programs for low-income infants | $1,100 | ||
| Health and services | Grants for community employment, food, housing and healthcare projects | $1,000 | ||
| Health and services | Grants to faith-based and community organizations | $50 | ||
| Health and services | Grants for elderly nutrition services including Meals on Wheels | $100 | ||
| Health and services | Extra money for Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology | $2,000 | ||
| Health and services | Funding for community preventative health campaigns, vaccination programs, healthcare-associated infection reduction strategies | $1,000 | ||
| Health and services | Funding to improve IT security at the Department of Health and Human Services | $50 | ||
| Health and services | Oversight of Department of Health and Human Services spending | $17 | ||
| Education | Funding for ‘Title I’ education programs for disadvantaged children. | $13,000 | ||
| Education | Construction funding for school districts without a local property-tax base. | $100 | ||
| Education | Funding for school computer and science laboratories and technology training for teachers. | $650 | ||
| Education | Funding for services to homeless children including meals and transportation. | $70 | ||
| Education | Grants for states to address teacher shortages | $200 | ||
| Education | Grants for special education programs | $12,200 | ||
| Education | Grants to states for vocational rehabilitation for disabled people | $540 | ||
| Education | Grants to states for independent living centers and services for elderly blind people | $140 | ||
| Education | Increase in Pell Grant to $5,350 in 2009 and to $5,550 in 2010, and other increases to student aid | $17,114 | ||
| Education | Money to increase size of colleges’ student aid funds | $60 | ||
| Education | Money for colleges’ work-study programs | $200 | ||
| Education | Grants for teacher training and professional development | $100 | ||
| Education | Funding for grants for states to create systems tracking individual student data | $250 | ||
| Education | Department of Education spending oversight | $14 | ||
| Volunteering | Extra money for AmeriCorps volunteer programs | $160 | ||
| Volunteering | Extra money for National Service Trust volunteer programs | $40 | ||
| Volunteering | Corporation for National and Community Service spending oversight | $1 | ||
| Social Security | Construction of new National Computer Center for Social Security Administration | $500 | ||
| Social Security | Extra money for Social Security Administration to process disability and retirement claim backlogs | $500 | ||
| Social Security | Oversight of SSA spending | $2 | ||
| Labor, Health, Education, Volunteering & Social Security | $72,564 | $71,271 | ||
| Oversight | Oversight of economic recovery package | $25 | ||
| Oversight | $25 | $25 | ||
| Military | Army child development centers | $80 | ||
| Military | Army “warrior transition complexes” | $100 | ||
| Military | Navy and Marine Corps troop housing | $100 | ||
| Military | Navy and Marine Corps child development centers | $80 | ||
| Military | Navy and Marine Corps energy conservation and alternative energy projects | $100 | ||
| Military | Air Force troop housing | $100 | ||
| Military | Air Force child development centers | $80 | ||
| Military | Defense hospital construction | $1,330 | ||
| Military | Defense energy conservation investments | $120 | ||
| Military | Army National Guard construction | $50 | ||
| Military | Air National Guard construction | $50 | ||
| Military | Army family housing construction and repairs | $38.439 | ||
| Military | Air Force family housing construction | $96.561 | ||
| Military | Programs for military homeowners facing mortgage problems | $555 | ||
| Veterans | Improvements to Veterans Affairs benefits administration, IT and claims processing | $200 | ||
| Veterans | Renovations and energy efficiency improvements to veterans medical facilities | $1,000 | ||
| Veterans | Grants for construction of state extended care facilities for veterans | $150 | ||
| Veterans | National Cemetery renovations and repairs | $50 | ||
| Veterans | Oversight of VA and military spending | $1 | ||
| Military & Veterans | $4,281 | $4,246 | ||
| State | Passport and training funding for State Department | $90 | ||
| State | Creation of information management backup facility for State Department, funding for participation in cybersecurity program | $290 | ||
| State | State Department spending oversight | $2.0 | ||
| State | Repair and rehabilitation of flood control levees on Rio Grande, with remainder of money for IT investments at U.S. Agency for International Development | $220 | ||
| State | $602 | $602 | ||
| Transportation | Grants for airport improvements | $1,100 | ||
| Transportation | Upgrades to Federal Aviation Administration power systems, air traffic control centers and towers and airport lighting, navigation and landing equipment | $200 | ||
| Transportation | Grants for highway improvements | $29,000 | ||
| Transportation | Grants to Amtrak | $1,300 | ||
| Transportation | Grants for capital investments in designated high-speed rail corridors | $8,000 | ||
| Transportation | Public transit improvements and infrastructure investments | $8,400 | ||
| Transportation | Grants for investments and improvements to small domestic shipyards | $100 | ||
| Transportation | Department of Transportation spending oversight | $20 | ||
| Housing | Repairs and modernization of public housing projects | $4,000 | ||
| Housing | Grants to rehabilitate and improve energy efficiency on Native American housing programs | $510 | ||
| Housing | Grants for community and economic development projects | $1,000 | ||
| Housing | Grants for short-term help with rent and housing relocation for homeless families | $1,500 | ||
| Housing | Energy efficiency retrogrades to low-income housing, including new insulation, windows and furnaces | $2,250 | ||
| Housing | Funds for communities to buy and rehabilitate foreclosed and vacant properties | $2,000 | ||
| Housing | Funds for building and rehabilitating low-income housing using green technology | $2,250 | ||
| Housing | Grants for removing lead-based paint in low-income housing | $100 | ||
| Housing | Department of Housing and Urban Development spending oversight | $15 | ||
| Housing | Increase in government-sponsored mortgage provider conforming loan limits | $50 | ||
| Transportation & Housing | $61,795 | $61,051 | ||
| Aid | Aid to states to balance education budgets, prevent cutbacks and modernize schools | $40,600 | ||
| Aid | Aid to states in form of bonus grants for meeting key performance measures in education | $5,000 | ||
| Aid | Aid to states for public safety and critical services | $8,000 | ||
| Aid | $53,600 | $53,600 | ||
| Aid | Tax breaks for low-income housing investors | $143 | ||
| Aid | $143 | $143 | ||
| SPENDING TOTAL | $311,339 | $308,481 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | $400 payroll tax credit for workers earning up to $75,000; married couples filing jointly get $800 for income up to $150,000 | $116,199 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | Increase in earned income tax credit for working families with more than three children | $4,663 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | Increased eligibility for refundable child tax credit, with all income over $3000 qualifying | $14,830 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | Tax credit of up to $2500 for tuition and college expenses | $13,907 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | Computers and computer technology will qualify for inclusion in tax-advantaged savings plans | $6 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | A tax credit for first-time homebuyers increases from $7500 to $8000, and will not have to be repaid | $6,638 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | Taxpayers earning less than $125,000 can deduct sales and excise taxes paid on new cars | $1,684 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | $2400 of unemployment benefits will not be subject to federal income tax | $4,740 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | Middle-income taxpayers get an exemption from the alternative minimum tax of $46,700 for an individual and $70,950 for a married couple | $69,759 | ||
| Individual tax cuts | $232,426 | |||
| Business tax cuts | Businesses will be able to more quickly deduct the cost of investments in plant and equipment from their taxable income | $5,074 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Businesses will be allowed to recover alternative minimum tax and research and development credits faster | $805 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Small businesses will be allowed to write-off up to $250,000 of capital expenditures in the year of acquisition | $41 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Unprofitable small businesses with annual receipts of less than $15 million can recoup taxes paid in the past five years, up from two | $947 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Companies will be allowed to defer taxes for five years on several transactions aimed at restructuring balance sheets, and repay the taxes over the following five years | $1,622 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Businesses will be able to claim a tax credit for 40% of the first $6000 of wages paid to unemployed veterans or 16-25-year-olds hired | $231 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Small businesses will be able to exclude 75% of the gain from the sale of some stock held more than five years | $829 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Taxable corporations converting into S corporations will have a 7-year holding period for assets subject to built-in gains tax, from 10 years | $415 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Restoring tougher rules on taxpayers claiming losses incurred by a company before they bought it is projected to raise money | -$6,977 | ||
| Business tax cuts | Some companies restructuring may not be subject to those tougher rules | $3,163 | ||
| Business tax cuts | $6,150 | |||
| Manufacturing tax cuts | Manufacturing facilities producing “intangible property” such as patents can qualify for industrial development bonds | $203 | ||
| Manufacturing tax cuts | Facilities making advanced energy property may be able to claim a new 30% investment tax credit | $1,647 | ||
| Manufacturing tax cuts | $1,850 | |||
| Economy tax cuts | $10 billion “new markets tax credits” will be available for 2008 and 2009 | $815 | ||
| Economy tax cuts | $25 billion of bonds for investment in economic recovery zones will be created | $5,371 | ||
| Economy tax cuts | Tribal governments will have fewer requirements on their ability to issue tax-exempt bonds | $315 | ||
| Economy tax cuts | $6,501 | |||
| Infrastructure tax cuts | High-speed rail facilities for trains capable of going at 150 miles per hour will qualify for facility bonds | $288 | ||
| Infrastructure tax cuts | Rules affecting state and local government bonds will be changed to improve marketability | $3,789 | ||
| Infrastructure tax cuts | A 3% withholding on payments to government contractors will be delayed for one year | $291 | ||
| Infrastructure tax cuts | $22 billion in new tax credit bonds for construction or repair of public schools | $9,877 | ||
| Infrastructure tax cuts | $2.8 billion of bonds for schools working with businesses | $1,045 | ||
| Infrastructure tax cuts | 35% credit to bondholders for infrastructure bonds, 35% refundable credit to issuers of bonds | $4,348 | ||
| Infrastructure tax cuts | $19,638 | |||
| Energy tax cuts | Extending by three years the placed-in-service date for renewable energy investments | $13,143 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | Investment credits in lieu of production credits for renewable energy purchases | $285 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | Removal of cap on tax credits for purchase of small wind systems | $604 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | $1.6 billion extra allocation of clean energy bonds | $578 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | $2.4 billion extra qualified energy conservation bonds | $803 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | 30% cap on tax credit for energy efficiency purchases by homeowners, up to $1500 per residence | $2,034 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | Credit for purchase of residential solar, geothermal, wind and fuel cells | $268 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | 50% tax credit for purchase of alternative refueling stations | $54 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | Tax credit for plug-in electric vehicle conversion | $2,002 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | Equalization of parking and transit tax-free employer benefits at $230 for 2009 | $192 | ||
| Energy tax cuts | $19,963 | |||
| Energy tax cuts | Grants to states for low-income housing projects in lieu of credits | $5 | ||
| Grants to states for energy projects in lieu of credits | $69 | |||
| Other tax cuts | Customs and Border Protection will not demand that U.S. lumber, steel and other companies repay money they were given from Canadian and Mexican import duties | $90 | ||
| Energy & Other tax cuts | $164 | |||
| Individual aid | One-time payment of $250 for retirees, disabled people, SSI recipients, railroad retirees and disabled veterans | $14,225 | ||
| Individual aid | One-time refundable tax credit of $250 for some government retirees not eligible for social security benefits | $218 | ||
| Individual aid | $14,443 | |||
| TAX CUTS TOTAL | $301,135 | $288,339 | ||
| Individual aid | Two-year extension of program providing income support and training benefits for workers who lose their jobs because of outsourcing overseas | $1,600 | ||
| Individual aid | Extension of jobless benefits for up to 33 weeks | $26,960 | ||
| Individual aid | Increase in weekly unemployment benefits by $25 | $8,800 | ||
| Individual aid | Grants for states modernizing unemployment compensation coverage among low-wage, part-time and other workers | $2,975 | ||
| Individual aid | Waiver on interest payments and accrual in interest on loans held by state unemployment trust funds | $1,100 | ||
| Individual aid | Extension of unemployment compensation by 13 weeks for railroad workers | $21 | ||
| Individual aid | Aid to states to administer extended benefits | $138 | ||
| Individual aid | Aid to states for temporary assistance to needy families payments (TANF) | $2,418 | ||
| Individual aid | Extra aid to states with high population group or increased poverty for TANF payments | $319 | ||
| Individual aid | Extra funding for child support enforcement | $1,000 | ||
| Individual aid | Costs of providing health coverage help to workers laid off because of outsourcing overseas | $457 | ||
| Individual aid | $45,788 | $58,143 | ||
| Individual aid | 65% subsidy for laid-off workers to continue paying premiums for former employer’s health plan for nine months | $24,749 | ||
| Individual aid | $24,749 | $24,677 | ||
| Health care | Incentive payments to hospitals and physicians who computerize medical-records systems | $17,559 | ||
| Health care | $17,559 | $17,559 | ||
| Health care | Federal aid to states for Medicaid spending | $90,044 | ||
| Health care | $90,044 | $90,042 | ||
| AID TOTAL | $178,140 | $190,421 | ||
| TOTAL | $790,614 | $787,241 |
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Part of the problem going forward is that we are relying far too much on government to come up with a solution to this situation. Everyone has their favorite villain for the current economic collapse. We can think of at least 10 ways in which consuming citizens were responsible.
If we only point the finger at the fat cats on Wall Street, and our governmental agencies and politicians, we will have learned little. We all bear some responsibility.
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Please use a darker font. You are giving me eyestrain with that light grey.
Otherwise, very informative posting. Thank you for your efforts.
How do you apply fot the $5,000 weatherization grant?
i just hope that the economy would recover very soon because of the Stimulus Package given by the government.
i hope that those Stimulus Package coming from the government would really kick start the Economy. the economic recession has been very bad on my business. 1
the last quarter of 2009 seems promising as we have seen lots of signs of econic recovery against the massive economic recession. i hope that in 2010 all our economies would be back on track. recession really sucks.