• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. (wikipedia.org)
  • Methuen $79,000 Posted: March 05, 2009 Congresswoman Niki Tsongas announced today that the City of Lawrence will receive approximately $3,500,000 as funding begins to be released from the recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). (valleypatriot.com)
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) required CBO to comment on reports filed by recipients of ARRA funding about the number of jobs funded by ARRA. (cbo.gov)
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) has some direct impacts and implications for HIPAA implementation and compliance. (hipaanews.net)
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was enacted to stimulate the economy during a significat economic downturn. (gwu.edu)
  • In 2010, TCPs in all 50 states, US territories, and Washington, DC, were awarded a total of $120 million (4) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to decrease the prevalence of tobacco use (5). (cdc.gov)
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009) (ARRA) was perhaps the key piece of legislation enacted in the wake of the crisis. (confex.com)
  • In order to receive the EHR stimulus money, the HITECH act (ARRA) requires doctors to show "meaningful use" of an EHR system. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 was signed into law by President Obama on Feb. 17. (ocgov.com)
  • The region suffered less decline during the recent recession than the national average, and the region's recovery has been stronger than the national. (nebhe.org)
  • Thank you, Chairman Brown and Ranking Member DeMint, and Chairman Dodd and Ranking Member Shelby, for inviting me to speak to you today about the recession, the nascent recovery, and job creation. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • As part of the $787 billion stimulus plan, Federal agencies use Recovery funds to award grants and other savings opportunities throughout the country. (ocgov.com)
  • It received a substantial boost with American Recovery and Reinvestment funds in the context of the stimulus plan. (medscape.com)
  • Under the HITECH Act, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) resolved to spend $25.9 billion to promote and expand the adoption of health information technology . (wikipedia.org)
  • The HITECH Act set meaningful use of interoperable EHR adoption in the health care system as a critical national goal and incentivized EHR adoption. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of both the HITECH Act and the ACA is to enhance efficiency and to improve quality in the health care system, including increasing the adoption rate of electronic health records, expanding access to care, and improving patient health. (cdc.gov)
  • Programs allocated additional funds in the workforce development area include the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult Program ($494 million), the WIA Dislocated Worker program ($1,184 million), and the Wagner-Peyser Act ($148 million for unrestricted services and $247 million for reemployment services). (utexas.edu)
  • The purpose of this project is to measure progress and challenges in implementing the workforce and UI provisions of the Recovery Act, to highlight new and promising practices, and to provide guidance to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), the states, and local workforce investment areas. (utexas.edu)
  • ETA is receiving monthly reports from the states on their expenditures and activities, but it will not receive systematic in-depth information about the implementation of the workforce components of the Recovery Act. (utexas.edu)
  • Supplemental funding secured through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act also enabled federal workforce programs and state agencies to pay benefits for longer durations and to offer expanded training and reemployment services to program participants. (bls.gov)
  • The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), in partnership with states and local entities, provides these services through the UI system, the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service, and the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs. (bls.gov)
  • State workforce agencies participating in the WIA programs submit individual participant-level data through the quarterly (and annual) ETA 9090 and ETA 9091 reports, called Workforce Investment Act Standardized Report Data. (bls.gov)
  • Although national recommendations for smoking cessation treatment for this population exist, such as those of the American Psychiatric Association, these recommendations are not routinely implemented (3). (cdc.gov)
  • We need to cultivate champions for mental healthcare in Congress, and that's something that we can do at the local grassroots level or through our professional organizations, and organizations like the American Psychiatric Association particularly need to play a role. (medscape.com)
  • ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Making supplemental appropriations. (hipaa.com)
  • Funding for the project was provided by NIMH from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants. (cdc.gov)
  • Proposal includes the Making Work Pay Credit, Home Buyer's Credit, Economic Recovery Payments, expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and HOPE credit, exclusion of portion of unemployment, and AMT patch extension. (taxpolicycenter.org)
  • Stimulus funds in the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provided nearly $50 billion to states to help offset state budget cuts and to spur initial reform efforts. (nebhe.org)
  • The State agency has established adequate internal controls for assessing and monitoring the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds provided to Community Action Agencies (CAA) under the Recovery Act. (hhs.gov)
  • Also, additional work was imposed as a result of the receipt of Recovery Act funds. (hhs.gov)
  • A comparison of the $827 billion economic recovery plan drafted by Senate Democrats with an $820 billion version passed by the House and the final $787 billion conference version shows huge shifts within these similar totals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rep. MAFFEI: The American people want us to work together--Republicans and Democrats--to reduce our debt, pay our bills, and avoid an economic catastrophe, which would result from default. (ontheissues.org)
  • A Powerful New Tool for Health Insurance Information -- HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Announces Healthcare.gov Kathleen Sebelius, MPA, Secretary of Health and Human Services, urges you to direct your patients to healthcare.gov for answers to all questions on health insurance and the Affordable Care Act. (medscape.com)
  • L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 111-5 (text) (PDF)), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is a clear indication that without additional action on the part of Congress and the Obama administration, the U.S. economy could easily slip into an extended jobless recovery-or see the recovery stall altogether. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • Therefore, 94% of the American people know it didn't work, so what does Obama do? (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • Oversight: Accountability in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (gwu.edu)
  • While the Government has taken a step in the right direction, much of these new oversight mechanisms such as Recovery.gov and the Recovery Act Accountability Board have not lived up to expectations. (gwu.edu)
  • Funding comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (nebhe.org)
  • Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $204 million in Recovery Act funding. (utah.gov)
  • The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included a provision for federal funding to investigate how different interventions compare to each other. (cdc.gov)
  • Title IV of the act promises maximum incentive payments for Medicaid to those who adopt and use "certified EHRs" of $63,750 over 6 years beginning in 2011. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their plan ensures that foreign creditors such as China, Japan, and OPEC countries Iran and Saudi Arabia would continue to get paid while we halt other payments to groups of Americans who have earned those benefits. (ontheissues.org)
  • The new program is the $13 billion in Economic Recovery Act payments that SSA will be paying recipients in May 2009. (topgovernmentgrants.com)
  • The economic recovery could result in a longer period of job losses and slower job creation compared to the past two recessions. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • Even now, we continue to see global financial markets subject to debt-related shocks that could potentially upend this economic recovery by hampering access to credit. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • We need to ensure that we do not leave any demographic groups behind during economic recovery. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • The public debate over the economic recovery package working its way through Congress [1] has become more muddled and incoherent than the critics' caricature of the package itself. (cbpp.org)
  • Friday brought another round of good news: Nonfarm payrolls rose by a better-than-expected 201,000 and wages, the last missing piece of the economic recovery, increased by 2.9 percent year over year to the highest level since April 2009. (macdailynews.com)
  • States face a serious fiscal problem that could force them to institute additional deep budget cuts and tax increases in 2010, weakening the fragile economic recovery and harming vulnerable children, seniors, and people with disabilities, among others. (cbpp.org)
  • The federal assistance that states received for their Medicaid programs under this year's economic recovery legislation is scheduled to end with a "cliff" on December 31, 2010, and the assistance states received for education and other services also will be largely exhausted by then. (cbpp.org)
  • The unemployment rate among teens is 26.7 percent, it is 15.6 percent among African Americans, and 12.7 percent among Hispanics, and 15.0 percent among those without a high school diploma. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed into law last February has worked its magic and injected momentum into the economy, boosting economic growth in the third quarter and saving or creating upwards of 1 million to 1.5 million jobs. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • The end of June saw 6.7 million job openings and just 6.6 million Americans classified as unemployed, an unprecedented imbalance… With midterm elections fast approaching, Trump's economic record will be front and center. (macdailynews.com)
  • The $372.8 million, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was awarded across the U.S. to 44 communities, including cities, towns and tribes. (dekalbhealth.net)
  • On January 10, 2009, President-Elect Obama's administration released a report that provided a preliminary analysis of the impact to jobs of some of the prototypical recovery packages that were being considered. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act) includes nearly $800 billion dollars in federal spending through a number of provisions intended to result in rapid economic stimulus nationwide, particularly in terms of providing jobs, employment services, and retraining for millions of unemployed workers. (utexas.edu)
  • Recovery dollars will continue to pump up demand and add jobs to the economy as the remaining $553 billion is spent in 2010. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • This bill would threaten the full faith and credit of the United States, cost American jobs, hurt businesses of all sizes and do damage to the economy. (ontheissues.org)
  • The polling data - we had this yesterday - only 6% of the American people think the stimulus created any new jobs. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • This bill prioritizes Chinese lenders ahead of American seniors and veterans and college students. (ontheissues.org)
  • Effective economic stimulus and recovery measures work by increasing the demand for goods and services at a time when there is insufficient existing demand to keep businesses operating at full capacity and to generate full employment. (cbpp.org)
  • To learn more about Communities Putting Prevention to Work, visit www.hhs.gov/recovery and www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/recovery. (dekalbhealth.net)
  • As a result of these issues, risks are increased that intended recipients may not receive all of the additional CSBG services envisioned in the Recovery Act. (hhs.gov)
  • The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. (medscape.com)
  • Rep. Biggert, R-IL]: The HAMP Termination Act would put an end to the poster child for failed Federal foreclosure programs. (ontheissues.org)
  • Given the importance of encouraging job growth and bolstering the economy in the months ahead, federal policymakers have cause for serious concern that the actions which state policymakers will be compelled to take in the next two years will impede recovery and cause significant economic damage. (cbpp.org)
  • The Green Retrofit Program for Multifamily Housing (the 'GRP') is a housing program that will be administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ('HUD') that was recently enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. (lexology.com)
  • Utah is one of 10 states to receive millions of dollars for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Recovery Act," said Jason Berry, manager of the Utah State Energy Program. (utah.gov)
  • [3] Summers was not alone among mainstream economists in recognizing that changed economic conditions warranted a much larger stimulus and recovery package than was originally anticipated. (cbpp.org)
  • Other considered amendments included the Freedom Act of 2009, an amendment proposed by Senate Finance Committee members Maria Cantwell (D) and Orrin Hatch (R) to include tax incentives for plug-in electric vehicles. (wikipedia.org)
  • This notice provides guidance in Q & A format to taxpayers on electing the 3, 4, or 5 year carryback of net operating losses or a 4 or 5 year carryback of losses from operations under section 13 of the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act (WHBAA) of 2009. (irs.gov)
  • The grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allows 14 students and recent graduates from URI, Brown University, Bates College and the University of Connecticut to conduct research on vaccines against diseases ranging from Hepatitis C to Lyme d. (nebhe.org)
  • This study uses household level data from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the American Community Survey (ACS) to examine the impact of increases in benefits and ABAWD restriction waivers on program participation and labor force decisions. (confex.com)
  • Requests to modify the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 periodic reporting of issuers that are either reorganizing or liquidating under the provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code. (sec.gov)
  • Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to terminate providing new mortgage modification assistance under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), except with respect to existing obligations on behalf of homeowners already extended an offer to participate in the program. (ontheissues.org)
  • We first show how wrought can be classified on a laboratory system with 89.66% recovery and 94.96% purity. (bvsalud.org)
  • We then implement the first industrial MIS material recovery solution for sorting Twitch, combining our sensors with a commercial-scale separator system. (bvsalud.org)
  • My name is Heather Boushey and I'm a Senior Economist at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • Recovering Ohio - Thousands of low- and middle-income working Ohioans received larger tax credits in 2009 due to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (policymattersohio.org)
  • The average wage paid to American workers rose by 10 cents to $27.16 an hour. (macdailynews.com)
  • Americans with mental illness, who often also have substance abuse problems, smoke at higher rates and die on average 25 years earlier than the rest of the US population (1,2). (cdc.gov)