{"id":14492,"date":"2009-08-17T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today-poll_57_dont_see_stimulus_working\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:00:10","slug":"usa_today-poll_57_dont_see_stimulus_working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14492","title":{"rendered":"USA Today&#8211;Poll: 57% don&#39;t see stimulus working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation&#8217;s economy, a majority of Americans think the avalanche of new federal aid has cost too much and done too little to end the recession.<\/p>\n<p>A USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll found 57% of adults say the stimulus package is having no impact on the economy or making it worse. Even more \u201d\u201d60% \u201d\u201d doubt that the stimulus plan will help the economy in the years ahead, and only 18% say it has done anything to help improve their personal situation.<\/p>\n<p>That skepticism underscores the challenge Obama faces in trying to convince the public that the stimulus has helped turn the economy around. It also could complicate the administration&#8217;s plans to overhaul the nation&#8217;s health care system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/economy\/2009-08-16-stimulus-poll_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip#pollresults\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation&#8217;s economy, a majority of Americans think the avalanche of new federal aid has cost too much and done too little to end the recession. A USA<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14492\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,616,151,667,596,601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-fiscal-stimulus-package-of-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}