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Photo via A Green Living It’s kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago — a recent poll found that something like only 13% of Americans felt it helped them. Of course, much of the nation’s disdain can be attributed to the fact that the recession still hasn’t lifted, that the stimulus failed to lift employment figures as high as was hoped, and that Obama’s political foes have seized onto an ‘out-of-control-spending’ narrative. But the stimulus has done a number of very good things, like preventing all-out depressio… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stimulus Bill Created Nearly 1 Million Green Jobs: CEA Report