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USDA releases report on the impact of the Recovery Act on America's rural communities

Posted Mon, 2010/10/25 - 3:56pm by RCAP

Over 300,000 jobs are estimated to have been saved or created, millions of Americans will benefit from improved services

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2010 (USDA) – USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager today issued a report on how the agency's distribution of loan and grant funds provided to the agency through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) has helped the nation's rural residents.

EPA Administrator marks one-year anniversary of Recovery Act in Ohio, acknowledges RCAP

Posted Fri, 2010/02/26 - 4:40pm by RCAP

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson joined Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland and Ohio officials at a press conference Feb. 18 in Columbus to mark the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
 
Jackson announced that the recovery act had saved or created 79,000 jobs in Ohio and would provide 4.5 million Ohio working families with a tax cut. Ohio is also among the leaders nationally in the number of recovery act-funded water pollution control and safe drinking water projects.