Well, I Loved the Stimulus

Michael Grunwald Makes the Case For Obama’s Now-Unpopular Recovery Act

“It seems like just about everybody hates the Obama stimulus,” said Time magazine senior national correspondent Michael Grunwald. A year after President Obama signed the $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the percentage of the public that believed it had created jobs was lower than the percentage that believed Elvis was alive. Today, even Obama himself no longer says the word “stimulus” in talking about his first-term accomplishments.

But at a Zócalo event at Grand Park in partnership with the Music Center, Grunwald, author of The New New …