stimulus spending a year later
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Where’s The Stimulus?
What Happened?What’s Next?
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Our Government’s Analysis
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – Passed February 2009
• Congressional Budget Office Report – Dated November 2009
– 640,000 direct jobs created– Over 50% in the education field
– 1.2% to 3.2% increase in GDP
– Unemployment reduced by 0.3% to 0.9%
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$787 Billion Appropriated
• $288 Billion to tax benefits
• $224 Billion to entitlement programs
• $275 Billion to grants, contracts and loans
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How Much Is Circulating?
Appropriated Obligated Spent %
Entitlements $224 B $224 B $95.7 B 42.7%
Tax Relief $288 B $288 B $92.8 B 32.2%
Grants ContractsLoans $275 B $158.7 B $68.5 B 24.9%
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Highway Construction• $27 Billion Appropriated
• 75% Obligated
• 15.7% Spent
• Impediment – winter conditions
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Housing Construction
•$3 Billion appropriated
•6% Spent
•Mostly reimbursement of prior preconstruction expenditures
•Impediment – winter conditions
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Housing Weatherization
• $5 Billion appropriated
• 2% Spent
• Labor Department prevailing wage study completed September 3, 2009
• Impediments– Winter conditions– National Historic Preservation Act
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