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Almost five months after Democrats used their majorities in the U.S. Congress to push through the stimulus, the two-year package has had little impact as anxious Americans watch the country's unemployment rate surge to 9.5 percent.
Obama is asking for patience and even though the White House said Wednesday it is not discussing a second stimulus plan, it has not ruled out a second effort to try to boost the economy out of recession.
"He's not ruling anything out, but at the same time he's not ruling anything in," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "Obviously we passed a hefty recovery plan that implements over the course of about a two-year period of time, and we're on track with that implementation."
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More Spending to Come
Economist Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution said it appeared that only about $100 billion of the $787 billion has been spent so far, and that the pace of spending will increase rapidly in the next six to nine months.
Next 3 months crucial to Obama's agenda
"Up to now, the amount of money that has hit the economy has only been a dosage," he said. "I don't think it's done much of anything up until now because the numbers are so small, but they're about to get bigger."