Money Well Spent? : : the Truth Behind the Trillion Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History

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1: Recession -- File your unemployment electronically -- The ditch -- Let's make a deal -- Follow the money -- No, thank you -- 2: Recovery? -- Shovel-ready -- Recovery inaction -- One man's waste -- Cash for clunkers -- Jobs, jobs, jobs -- 3: Reinvestment -- The green economy -- "The carrot that feels like a stick" -- The shellacking -- Connected country -- Sputnik moment? -- Magic bullets?
Traces the evolution of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 while offering insight into its fiercely partisan supporters and detractors, explaining how the money was spent and what will be the most likely outcome.

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PUBLISHED
New York : PublicAffairs, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xv, 391 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781610390095
1610390091

SUBJECTS
Job creation.
Economic development projects.
Economic stabilization.
Federal aid.
Recessions.
United States -- Economic policy -- 2009-
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-