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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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Also known as: ARRA, the Stimulus
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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Category: History & Society
Also called:
the Stimulus
Date:
2009
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United States
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), legislation, enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by Pres. Barack Obama in 2009, that was designed to stimulate the U.S. economy by saving jobs jeopardized by the Great Recession of 2008–09 and creating new jobs. In December 2007 the U.S. economy officially slipped into recession, spurred particularly by the decline in the housing market and the subprime mortgage crisis and worsened by the collapse of the global financial services firm Lehman Brothers in September 2008. (The U.S. economic meltdown hastened in the midst of the 2008 presidential election, and Obama’s steady ...(100 of 887 words)

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