 Barack Obama’s stimulus package was supposed to save and create American jobs. But nearly six months after President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law most of the economic news remains grim. According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate shot up to 9.5 percent in June with 467,000 jobs lost – the worst numbers in 26 years. So what’s happening? How come the infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars of public investment are failing to jump start our economy?
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Stimulus Boosts Research on Minority Elders
New America Media, News Report, Paul Kleyman, Oct 28, 2009
Ethnic elders will grow 180 percent in the next two decades. Now stimulus money is helping boost research into ways to bring them better care.
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Idaho Gets Four Times More Stimulus Money in Contracts Than Louisiana
New America Media, News Report, Aaron Glantz, Oct 16, 2009
Sparsely-populated Idaho has received nearly four times the amount of stimulus dollars as Louisiana, a state that was battered by Katrina and Rita, making one wonder why such a disparity in the generosity of Obama's recovery task force.
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New Poll Shows Impact of Stimulus Package
New America Media,  , Sandip Roy, Oct 15, 2009
Everybody knows the $787 billion stimulus package is happening. But do they know exactly what it is doing and how it is affecting their communities?
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Visits Arab American Community
The Arab American News, News Report, Khalil AlHajal, Oct 14, 2009
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke did not have all the answers to Michigan's economic woes, or to many pressing small business and civil rights concerns of Arab Americans during a visit to Dearborn. But he announced at least one major new resource available for businesspeople.
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Stimulus Spending Tally Makes Public Debut
New America Media, News Report, Aaron Glantz, Oct 14, 2009
On Thursday, the Obama administration will release the most extensive list to date of who has received money from the $787 billion stimulus act, how much they’ve spent, and on what. Find out what your community received.
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아시안아메리칸, 오바마 경제부양책 좋지만…돈은 다 어디 있나?
New America Media, News Report, Eunji Jang, Oct 07, 2009
뉴아메리카 미디어가 10월6일 발표한 여론조사 결과, 62%의 아시안은 경제부양책을 더욱 긍정적이고 좋게 생각 하고 있었습니다. 또한, 대부분의 아프리칸 아메리칸과 아시안 아메리칸들은 미국 경제가 올바르게 가고 있다고 생각하는 반면 대부분의 백인, 히스패닉과 네이티브 아메리칸이 미국경제가 빗나가고 있다고 생각한다고 뉴아메리카 미디어가 Sergio Bendixen Research Center와 함께 실시한 여론조사결과 나타났습니다.
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