Stimulus Pile News Today

Because of the huge protests we are expecting out there. california department of education received $6.8 billion out of the stimulus pile. and they already dispersed $4.7 billion out of the huge stimulus that passed last year. now, how much has actually been spent? the dispersal is from the state to the schools. the schools already spent $3.2 billion of the stimulus money, and now look at how many jobs were created already from that stimulus. 50,000 jobs created or saved. now look at that and s...

All right, the first lady is in mississippi today pushing her plan to get kids in shape. its called the lets move campaign. but if kids are eating a bunch of junk at school, a lot of that moving might be for nothing. the stimulus is helping out there, making school lunches healthier. our stimulus desk guru, josh levs, is here to explain it all. >> reporter: i got a new title there, fred. there are a lot of kids eating junk, we know this. this is a real problem. since the first lady is going ther...

Is, right now there have been billions of dollars that have gone into education to pay for teachers to be in schools, brooke. >> my mom was a teacher. we need our educators. give me an example of how one state was affected by all of this. >> one thats particularly interesting. we often like to look at michigan because michigan is by far the most struggling state out there. the highest unemployment rate. we know whats been going on with detroit and in general with this economic slump so much of t...

Education and the next closest thing is just 10% of that. transportation got 41,000 jobs so far. health and human services 33,000. so theres no comparison. education by far has gained the largest amount of money when it comes to creating jobs from that massive $862 billion stimulus pile that was opened up last year. what were doing is looking at individual projects and in some cases looking at individual states. were going to take a look at michigan. as weve told you before, michigan is the hard...

To fund geothermal energy and solar. $467 million from the giant stimulus pile, and that funds all sorts of programs all over the country, including what you are seeing here. we have video of one solar energy effort. these things are going on all the time. some people think you should spend morm more money on it. and this is what we get to do today, look at where the money has gone. >> what do you have next hour? >> we are looking -- the president is going to be in new hampshire. we have now loo...

Into new technology. they say five companies will be getting it. the companies say they believe it could create up to 5,000 jobs when they put that money to work in creating the new technology that will hopefully get people into space. thats what nasa is saying about that one. in case youre wondering, this figure is how many dollars we have looked into at cnn out of the massive stimulus pile. we have now put $10.3 billion of it under cnn review. so not bad. pretty good broad representative sampl...