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  1. Introducing Recovery Explorer

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 1, 2010 5:09 p.m.

    More than a year has passed since President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Federal agencies have been distributing some $787 billion appropriated by the act to jump start the economy. According to Recovery.gov, the Web site that tracks spending under the act, about 40 percent of that money has been spent, sent around the country in the form of contracts, grants, loans, tax benefits and entitlements.

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  2. Recovery.gov: Completely Tracking One-Fifth of the Recovery Act

    By Lisa Chiu Feb 15, 2010 11:27 a.m.

    In his State of the Union Address late last month, President Barack Obama declared - to great applause - that there were two million Americans working now who would otherwise be unemployed if not for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus.

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