american recovery and reinvestment act

Status Quo Ahead

A little over a year ago the new President and his party passed a bill called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or as it is popularly known, the stimulus bill. The spending in this bill was intended to offset the effects of the recession caused by the financial crisis. While there is no way .. read more

Stimulus Package Details

Updated: 2/14  Feb. 12 – Details of the final version of the stimulus package have been released. The final price tag would come out to about $789 billion, broken down to roughly $282 billion in tax changes (I will not call them tax cuts because most of them aren’t) and $507 billion in spending. What .. read more