Money Talks: Show Me the Stimulus Money
Wednesday, August 12 2009
by Amber Nimocks and Frank Stasio
In February, the federal government approved a $789.5 billion stimulus package to help turn the faltering economy around. So, where is it? Host Frank Stasio will talk to John Irons, research and policy director of the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, about the status of stimulus funding and what the money is intended to do. Then he'll chat with some North Carolinians who are beginning to see the first influxes of stimulus cash. James Siedow, vice provost for research at Duke University, and Dr. Cam Patterson, director of the McAllister Heart Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will talk about research being funded by the stimulus money. Valerie Brown-Schild, director of the Kenan Fellows Program, will discuss the impact the money will have on teaching in the state. And Ivan Urlaub, director of the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, talks about the potential for jobs in the clean energy field and how stimulus money might help jump start that sector of the economy.
