Stimulus Package Expected to Ease Congestion and Create Jobs

摘要

On February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law a 787 billion dollars spending bill designed to provide a stimulus to the nation's economy in wake of one of the country's worst economic downturns. Enacted by Congress, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes federal tax cuts, expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions, along with domestic spending in education, health care, energy and infrastructure. Stimulus funds to Arizona could not come at a better time. In order to balance the State budget, Legislature had cut millions of dollars in freeway funding. The new Stimulus Package is expected to bring jobs and congestion relief to Arizona, particularly in Maricopa County.