American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will create or save 66,000 Maryland jobs
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will create or save 66,000 Maryland jobs by the end of 2010. The jobs will come from smart investments in the future of Maryland including.
Children
$29 million child support enforcement
$194 million child tax credit
$ 24 million childcare access and quality improvement
http://clasp.org/publications/aara_childcarestatealloc.pdf
Education
$ 198 million for Pell grants
$ 7.9 million for Head Start
$ 216.4 million for students with disabilities
http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/ARRAConferenceStateTable.pdf
Rebuilding and Repowering America
$ 179 million in transit
$ 115 million for energy conservation
$431 million in highway funding
$124 million for clean water
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/compromise_map.html
$367 million in unemployment insurance
$ 223 million in food stamps
$ 1.3 billion for health care for low-income families and seniors
$222 million in aid to seniors and disabled veterans
http://www.cbpp.org/1-22-09bud.htm
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A special thanks to my Congressman, Frank Kratovil for voting for the final bill. He had misgivings about some of the pork and compromises made to try getting House Republicans to support the bill. Unfortunately, the House Republicans put politics ahead of the economic needs of American citizens and universally opposed this badly needed legislation.