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The goal of the stimulus plan was to put people to work quickly, and so states across the country have now begun to spend nearly $50 billion on thousands of smaller transportation projects that could employ up to 400,000 people, by the administration\u2019s estimates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/04\/us\/04states.html?hp\">[read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times &#8211; There is nothing monumental in President Obama\u2019s plan to revive the economy with a coast-to-coast building spree, no historic New Deal public works. 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