American Recovery And Reinvestment Act 2009
- * The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 is a package that is containing a number of targeted efforts, including transforming the economy through technology and science, creating clean and efficient energy, modernizing travel by modernizing bridges, roads, waterways and mass transit, providing more education opportunities, creating tax cuts to create jobs and to make work pay, lowering the cost of health care, helping workers who have been hurt by the economy, saving jobs in the public sector and protecting a number of vital services, and much more.
* How the funds will be spent will be posted on a special website that the President creates for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009.
- * The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 will have its own board known as the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board, and it will be created specifically to review the management of recovery dollars as well as to provide early warning should any problems pop up.
- * The plan will be targeting its investments for key areas, creating as well as preserving good jobs while strengthening the economy's ability to become significantly more efficient, producing numerous more opportunities for employ.
- * In order to reduce the country's dependence on foreign forms of oil and to put people back to work, efforts will be strengthened to double the production of renewable energy as well as to renovate public buildings so that energy is more efficient.
- * 16 billion dollars will be used to repair public housing as well as to make key retrofits for energy efficiency.
- * 32 billion dollars will be used to transform the transmission, distribution and production of energy by allowing for smarter and better grids and by focusing on investments in renewable forms of technology in the nation.
- * 6 billion dollars will go to weatherizing homes for modest income families