Posts Tagged ‘ stimulus ’

CBO: Stimulus Put Up To 2.8M People To Work In First Quarter

May 26th, 2010 | By Main Contributor | Category: President Obama

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the stimulus provided jobs to between 1.2 million and 2.8 million people during the first three months of this year.  The stimulus also raised GDP by as much as 4.2%.
Raised the level of real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) by between 1.7 percent and 4.2 percent
Lowered the unemployment rate by [...]



Job Recovery Started When Bush Left Office

Feb 8th, 2010 | By Main Contributor | Category: George Bush

There have been many indicators that the U.S. is slowly pulling out of the current recession.  December 2009 was the first month since December 2007 that more jobs were added to the economy than lost.  Unemployment went down last month from 10 to 9.7 percent, and jobs were added in the health, education and professional [...]



Stimulus Increases Wind Power Growth By 39%

Jan 27th, 2010 | By Main Contributor | Category: President Obama

The Whitehouse.gov website reports the “nation’s fleet of wind plants grew by 39% last year alone.”  The industry was expected to lose approximately 50% of its plants and jobs during the year of 2008.  Because of stimulus spending the industry was able avoid a 50% decline.  They instead grew the green wind energy sector by [...]