AmericanRecoveryAndReinvestmentAct

You know the saying: For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost.It comes from a rhyme, where someone doesn't have a nail and can't fit a horse with a shoe (yeah, this wasn't exactly written yesterday), and because there was no horse, no rider went into battle, and the kingdom crumbles into a...

I have an uncle who is a car salesman, and from the weary look he gives me every time I ask him how sales are going, I know that the tax breaks from the stimulus package, the tax credits designed to encourage car buying, haven't exactly kicked in yet.But give it time. The American Recovery and...

The health care system is sick. Or broken, or in desperate need of repair. But whatever you want to call it, it's not all bad out there. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is aiming some of its dollars -- $155 million, to be precise -- at 126 health centers around the country.When...