Earlier this week, Vice President Biden unveiled a new report detailing how the Recovery Act is investing $100 billion in groundbreaking scientific research and advances in technology. The report focuses on how Recovery Act investments in modernizing transportation, jumpstarting the renewable energy sector, advancing medical research, and building a platform to enhance the private sector’s ability to innovate have helped put America on-track to achieve some major science and technology breakthroughs. You can read more about those efforts in Time Magazine this week, which calls the Recovery Act "the most ambitious energy legislation in history," and also looks at key investments in broadband, high-speed rail, science and tech, education, and health IT. As the Time article points out, "Any of those programs would have been a revolution in its own right."
While getting up to speed on the report, you may also come across a “fact-check” story the Associated Press is running on it. Unfortunately, the only thing AP’s “fact check” seems to be missing is… the full facts. Here’s the scoop:
Fonte: White House