Countless lifelong friendships have been forged during the lowest of the lows of recovery. The best thing a recovering addict can do to help their long-term success is surround themselves with a network of sober friends. This allows all parties to draw strength from one another and hold each other accountable. When you accept that addiction is a disease which must be managed over the course of a lifetime, you accept that recovery never ends.

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BentProp's mission is "to repatriate every American service member who has not come home. The organization relies on historical data and firsthand accounts for its recovery work. Since the early s, Scannon and a group of volunteers have been slowly filling in ocean floor maps based on data they collect from dives. It was clear that it was tedious work, Moline said, and that's when he and Terrill realized they could help.

Combining BentProp's historical data with Moline and Terrill's more sophisticated technology and detailed maps made it much easier to track where currents may have laid to rest long-lost World War II vessels.

The two groups joined forces in and created Project Recover. Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs, as well as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office—all agree that the stimulus helped stop the bleeding, averting a second depression and ending a brutal recession. But on the job loss graphs from the Great Recession, the low point came right before stimulus dollars started flowing. Then the situation slowly began to improve. The Recovery Act followed the crisis response manual of the late British economist John Maynard Keynes, the godfather of fiscal stimulus.

The idea was to halt the classic death spiral where businesses facing weak demand lay off workers, which further weakens demand as laid-off workers stop spending, which leads to further layoffs and weaker demand. Credit was frozen, consumer confidence the lowest ever recorded.

The economy was shrinking at an unheard-of 8. Nevertheless, the Recovery Act airlifted record amounts of Keynesian stimulus out of the Treasury to resuscitate demand: tax breaks for businesses and families to get cash circulating again; bailouts of every state to avert layoffs of teachers, police officers, and other public employees; one-time handouts to seniors, veterans, and the disabled; generous expansions of unemployment benefits, food stamps, health insurance, and other assistance for struggling families.

The stimulus also put people to work directly with over , projects to upgrade roads, bridges, subways, water pipes, sewer plants, bus stations, fire stations, the Joseph R.

Biden Jr. Today, those independent analysts believe the Recovery Act came close to achieving its goal of saving or creating at least 3 million jobs in the short term.

Unemployment soared to double digits while it was still kicking into gear. State and local governments offset much of its impact with anti-Keynesian austerity, raising taxes, slashing spending, and sucking money back out of the economy. Still, the CBO and the private forecasters concluded that at its height, the Recovery Act increased output over 2 percent, the difference between growth and contraction.

It also helped balance every state budget, sparing public jobs and public services from the chopping block; many Republican governors attacked it as out-of-control spending, but all of them took its cash. It made a painful time less painful, helping millions of victims of the Great Recession keep food on their tables and roofs over their heads. Inflation remained extremely low, interest rates historically low.

World War II ended the Depression. But facts have not driven the debate. Republicans have stuck to their failed-stimulus message with impressive discipline. A colossal package of tax breaks and spending goodies that were almost all popular individually has become toxic collectively, as if the proper response to the crisis would have been a stiff upper lip, as if Herbert Hoover had it right the first time.

Obama has struggled to explain the counterintuitive Keynesian insight that government needs to loosen its belt when families and businesses are tightening theirs.

He has also struggled to make the counterintuitive political case that things would have been even lousier without the Recovery Act. He always made it sound like the problems he inherited from Bush were kinetic problems, not thermodynamic problems. But the stimulus was only partly about stimulus. It was also about metamorphosis. ARPA-E amounted to just 0. None of those projects was shovel-ready, either, but they were all deemed shovel-worthy.

The scale is almost unimaginable. The Recovery Act will also triple the smart meters in homes, quadruple the hybrids in the federal fleet, and expand electric vehicle charging stations forty-fold.