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Economic stimulus package passed by the US Congress in the wake of the Great Recession
Barack Obama’s presidency coincided with the recovery from the 2007–2009 financial crisis and oversaw policies that . The administration’s signature fiscal response—the American Recovery and Reinvestm...
President Barack Obama presided over a net gain of about across his eight years in office, a figure reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and summarized in fact-checking accounts . ; economists a...
From 2005 to 2025, SNAP benefit amounts rose substantially in nominal and program terms: the average monthly benefit per person reported for 2005 was , while the reported 2024 figure was , an increase...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 materially GDP growth and employment during the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, but its net long‑term effect and cost-effect...
The claim that President Barack Obama “created 11 million jobs” compresses different statistics and timeframes into a single headline; . Analysts disagree on causal attribution: some credit policy res...
Barack Obama presided over a recovery from the 2007–2009 Great Recession that combined a sizable federal stimulus with a multiyear private‑sector rebound; independent accounts attribute both to his po...
The U.S. economy from 2009–2017 grew slowly but steadily as it recovered from the 2007–09 financial crisis: real GDP averaged roughly 2.0–2.3% annually depending on the measure, with recovery driven b...
The 2008–2009 Great Recession produced a large, measurable rise in SNAP participation: analysts report that , with counts ranging from roughly 44–47 million participants at peak and household measures...
The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) , producing both an immediate boost in household food purchasing power and a measurable rise in program participation during the Great Recession....
Major increases in SNAP enrollment from 2008–2013 were driven primarily by the Great Recession’s economic shock — rising unemployment and broader income loss — supplemented by deliberate federal and s...
During the Obama presidency, renovation projects mentioned in available analyses ranged from modest White House grounds changes—most notably the —to large public infrastructure investments through fed...
The claim that is broadly supported by multiple accounts of recovery from the 2007–2009 recession, stimulus-driven GDP growth, and certain long-term investments, but it omits important caveats about u...
The analyses identify several consistent of the Obama administration: enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, targeted gun-vio...