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It was a year ago today president obama signed the stimulus bill in it law, then $787 billion to jump-start the u.s. economy. but one surprising area getting more than $130 million of that three tiny islands in the came reb bee an. >> jim acosta braved the elements of a tropical paradise as part of our ongoing effort to uncover where your stimulus dollars are going. and he joins us from washington. >> reporter: good morning. i guess could you call this work. the stimulus is now one year old and you can find stimulus money in all 50 states. but did you know taxpayer dollars are also going to st...

The u.s. economy will add 95,000 jobs per month over the next year. now, that may sound like a lot, but with unemployment just under 10% at last check, is it going to be enough? peter barnes is our expert and correspondent for fox business network and joins us with more on the picture. peter, thanks t great to have ys today. >> thank you, shan nop. >> happy valentine's day to you. >> thank you. what kind of confidence can we have in the predictions? is it enough if it's true? >> we can expect to see the economy start to create jobs i think here in the next few months. the recession is over, cl...

We are watching for news to develop. covering it all by the numbers. 18, number of hours until we get crucial jobs information. glimmer of hope today, tomorrow morning. more fodder for proponents and opponents of the president's stimulus programs. two, that's the number of hours until a house armed services military subcommittee gets testimony about sexual assaults in the military. something you may not know happens to the women and men in the armed forces. 60, the number of minutes until president obama meets with a bipartisan group of the nationatio nation's governors to discuss energy pol...

And hard choices. republicans call it a fiscally irresponsible spending free claiming it adds nearly $1.3 trillion in deficit spending, which is true? >> both. the reality is there's a short term spending spree under way mostly because of the fiscal crisis and economic crisis the country is in, things like unemployment insurance, stimulus programs, add to the deficit, under like that there's a reality medicare is out of control and social security is a problem. we would get to this point in the next four or five years no matter what. the reality is the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the econ...

It's groundhog day and we're expecting at least six more weeks of stimulus. the president wants to keep some of those key stimulus programs going, so he's slipping them into the budget. congress has to approve it, of course. some of those programs include more money for med cared and infrastructure projects and renewing tax breaks for workers and small businesses. you've seen the stimulus books on our stimulus desk. a whole forest had to die for all those pages. among the pages a school in a new hampshire district that's gotten more than $2 million in funding. president obama is there today to...