American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 News

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Stimulus Provided Large Jobs Boost, Says CBO Report

(Nov. 24) -- Here is one thing you can be thankful for: The heavily criticized American Recovery and Reinvestment Act generated a rise of between 1.4 and 4.1 percent in national output from July to September, according to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. With the unemployment rate still at the...

Across US, Infrastructure Is Crumbling

SAN FRANCISCO -- Billions of dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 are being spent on infrastructure projects across the country, but as last week's closing of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge shows, for every problem that gets addressed, it seems like 10 more are waiting. Built in 1936, and...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 News From the Web

02/06/12 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act New Grantee... Source: Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
03/25/11 Senior and Disabled Adult HUD Facility Going... Source: Business Wire Cambrian Center, a senior and disabled adult HUD housing facility, broke ground today on a $1.2 million dollar clean energy and building efficiency retrofit engineered by San Jose-based Salas O’Brien Engineers, Inc. The funds were appropriated from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 , to improve the energy efficiency of federally funded facilities, help stimulate the economy by creating new jobs and saving existing ones, while investing in long-term economic growth.
12/01/10 $110 Million Emergency Department Information Systems... Source: PR Newswire TORONTO , Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the emergency department information system market was worth $110 million in 2010 and will grow by over 30% in 2011 due to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Funding from this program will benefit the emergency department information systems the most in hospitals as facilities attempt to meet meaningful use requirements. To help stimulate the economy, the US government initiated the ARRA in 2009. As part of the act, President Obama incorporated the HITECH Act, which included funding estimated at over $40 billion for electronic health record adoption to help facilities and physicians improve the quality of health care delivery. By providing incentive funding, facilities and physicians that normally would not be able to afford or be inclined to install an electronic health record would now have the means and motive of adopting one—those that do not will be penalized beginning in 2015 with reduced Medicare reimbursements.
08/16/10 Research and Markets: J.K. Lasser's New Tax Law... Source: Zonagen Inc Things have changed radically in the world of housing, education, employment, and other areas where a firm understanding taxes can benefit you financially.

Background on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, abbreviated ARRA () and commonly referred to as the Stimulus or The Recovery Act, is an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009 and signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama.

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