President Obama's Stimulus is Changing America

The debate over President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill has been mostly about whether it has saved jobs—and most economists say it has—but that’s not the only thing it aimed to do: The bill was also designed to help advance several Democratic goals—a green economy, computerization of the health-care system, education reform, and scientific research. Time magazine says, “Any of those programs would have been a revolution in its own right,” and that the stimulus “may be [President Obama’s] signature effort to reshape America.”