Download Money Well Spent?: The Truth behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History AudioBook Free
The 2012 presidential marketing campaign will, most of all, be considered a referendum on the Obama administration's handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama's "audacity of hope" fulfilled the austerity of certainty. Central to this is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - the largest economic recovery plan in American background. Senator Mitch McConnell provided a taste of the enormity of the money committed: if you'd put in $1 million a day since Jesus was created, it still would not soon add up to the high cost of the stimulus program. The storyline of how this almost entirely partisan little bit of legislation - Democrats voted for this, Republicans against it - was exceeded and, moreover, the way the money was put in also to what effect, is known barely at all. Stepping beyond your politics fray, ProPublica's Michael Grabell offers a perceptive, balanced, and dramatic storyline of what happened to the taxpayers' money, going after the big question through behind-the-scenes interviews and on-the-ground reporting in greater than a dozen states across the country. MIchael Grabell has been a reporter at ProPublica since 2008, producing testimonies for USA Today, Salon, NPR, MSNBC, and the CBS Night time News. Before signing up for ProPublica, he was a reporter at the Dallas Morning hours News. He has double been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He lives in NJ.
