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Baltimore Received $1.8 Billion from Obama’s Stimulus Law
Baltimore Received $1.8 Billion from Obama’s Stimulus Law
The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama’s stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.President Obama claimed last Tuesday that if the Republican-controlled Congress would implement his policies to make “massive investments in urban communities,” they could “make a difference right now” in the city, currently in upheaval following the death of Freddie Gray.
However, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found that the Obama administration and Democratically-controlled Congress did make a “massive” investment into Baltimore, appropriating $1,831,768,487 though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the stimulus.
According to Recovery.gov, one of Baltimore’s central ZIP codes, 21201, received the most stimulus funding in the city, a total of $837,955,866. The amount included funding for 276 awards, and the website reports that the spending had created 290 jobs in the fourth quarter in 2013.Of this amount, $467.1 million went to education; $206.1 million to the environment; $24 million to “family”; $16.1 million to infrastructure; $15.2 million to transportation; $11.9 million to housing; and $3.1 million to job training.ZIP code 21202 received $425,170,937, including a $136 million grant to “improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet State academic achievement standards.”Twenty-nine other ZIP codes listed in Baltimore city received a total of $568,641,684.
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Re: Baltimore Received $1.8 Billion from Obama’s Stimulus Law
I guess you knew that the bulk of those (the education ones) if you click down through the details were from 2008 throuh 2011 almost 5 years ago (I picked the largest which was $365 Million) . The "Stimulus Program" was a direct response to the disastrous crash of the world markets and economies in 2008 to try to bring some economic stability. BTW, large amounts went to other areas and states as well.
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Re: Baltimore Received $1.8 Billion from Obama’s Stimulus Law
Baltimore is a city in decline and could use more federal money.
Put in context, $1.8 billion is very much when compared to the $2 TRILLION that reuters estimates that the US has spent in Iraq since 2003
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.