By Keenan Skelly
Investors and lawmakers attending the Dow Jones Infrastructure Summit Thursday weren’t particularly enthused about the $30 billion that President Barack Obama’s administration has slated for infrastructure in its economic stimulus package.
Their biggest issue: it simply isn’t enough, not coming anywhere close to the $2 trillion estimated to be needed to help the U.S.’s [...]
How the stimulus package may help new home buyers
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 authorizes a tax credit of up to $8,000 for qualified first-time home buyers purchasing a principal residence on or after Jan. 1 and before Dec. 1 this year. The following questions and answers provide basic information about the tax [...]
By David Robinson
NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Looking to install a new energyefficient furnace? Uncle Sam could help pay for it, thanks to the federal government’s new economic stimulus program.
Buying a new car? You’ll be able to claim a federal income tax deduction on the sales taxes you pay on all but the most expensive vehicles.
In the market [...]
McCain opposes economic stimulus package
By David Edwards
John McCain told Foxs Chris Wallace that he would not vote for the economic stimulus package proposed by Democrats.
by Peyton Vantrease, Nashville Nonpartisan Examiner
Tonight President Obama goes on T.V. to sell his stimulus package to the public. You would think that giving away over 700 billion would be an easy sell, but up until now it has not been. Just as this bill went thru the House and Senate to get approved with [...]
Commentary by John F. Wasik
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — You won’t get a check to go out and buy a large-screen television, nor will you see much immediate tax relief in the new $787 billion stimulus package signed by U.S. President Barack Obama last week.
The plan, one of the largest ever passed by Congress, will [...]
WASHINGTON - The US$787 billion ($1.53 trillion) US economic stimulus package is “only a first step on the road to economic recovery,” President Barack Obama has said.
In his weekly radio and internet address, Obama mapped out an ambitious agenda to pull the US out of its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the [...]
Nearly four in five Americans think the U.S. economy is getting worse despite the passage of a massive new stimulus package by Washington, according to a new survey released Friday.
A poll conducted by Gallup Inc. said that 79 per cent of Americans surveyed still believe the U.S. economy is deteriorating, about the same percentage as [...]
ACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The impact of the government’s multibillion stimulus package designed to help turn around the nation’s economy will soon be felt on the roads of Jacksonville.
On Tuesday afternoon, President Barack Obama signed the bill into law that includes money for infrastructure projects around the country.
That spending is going to help at least two [...]
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How does the Stimulus Package affect the average American?
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The American economy is deteriorating. For the first time in our history a stimulus package geared toward reforming our economy, to avert deterioration where profit and money has gone away. Trying to redirect the economy and how it functions here in America.
The average [...]
