projects in their districts. let s bring in ali velshi. he s been all over the cnn stimulus project. is it conclusive right now, ali, one way or another? has the plan been a success or a failure? it depends. i ll tell you, we have been studying this for a long time. has it created jobs? it absolutely has. we have direct reports, phoning companies to find out. the question is, the return on investment. was it worth more than $800 billion for the jobs that have been created and will be created as a result of this when all that money that you just talked about is spent? we have economists who have told us that when president obama took oips, the economy was at its worst point. we know that from the jobs numbers. when there are a lot of people who say the psych many work that is way. we were at the worst point and would have been better off today with or without stimulus. others say it directly had an impact on jobs created. yet others say it s very hard to
something else to do with your hands. one more thing you ll find interesting, this is being run by the american legacy foundation which is getting its funding out of that major settlement that big toba with a bunch of states all over the country. that s where the funds for the program came from but it s a stimulus project for a million dollars. i ve been open to the idea that one person s pork is another person s stimulus project and the jobs associated with it. but you look at this and a million dollars for this and is it going to work. is it going to work? one thing we need to point out there s an economic impact to getting people to stop smoking. health care and other things associated. and the cdc got money in every single state to help people stop smoking and here s a sound bite from senator tom harkin who talked about it last year with us. we re doing two things with this bill. we re putting people back to work on infrastructure projects, building new schools, thi
today, however, investors doing a bit of a flat line dance here on the market numbers. continuing fears about the global recovery, that s feeding in. the numbers don t look nearly as bad. maybe the markets are happy that tony harris is back from his vacation. the dow off four points. back above 10,000. 10,008. nasdaq up seven points at 21.48. back, rested and happy. that s the leading indicator of good times to come. we like it when you re like that, tony. stephanie, good to see you. all right. the government already pays for the census with our tax dollars, of course. so why does the census bureau need stimulus money? our josh levs has been digging into that. what have you found so far? you and i really need to talk about this one. glad to hear it. what we ve been doing at the stimulus project, we ve been looking at this $862 billion stimulus that passed last year where all those billions of dollars went. we ve been piecing through all sorts of different projects to
bus. what we also know is that both the haitian government and the dominican consulate warned the americans not to travel without documentation for the children, because they would be stopped. it was illegal, and they would be accused of child trafficking. in spite where one of the team leaders of the american backers asked for permission and was refused permission to cross into the dominican republic. four hours after that meeting with the consulate, the whole team was arrested with the children, so it shows they certainly chose to disregard all the information they were given, ali. karl, you let us know if there s further development on this story and anything else you ve got going on in port-au-prince. karl penhaul in port-au-prince. okay. one of the things we ve been looking at obviously for the last couple weeks and we re continuing to look at is your tax dollars in work at the stimulus project, that s josh levs and steve brusque at our stimulus desk, i ll be checking in w
north. when we go all the way in, that s where the president is speaking today. it s interesting to look at it from the stimulus desk because this specific school has gotten more than $2 million. i can show you it s closer to $3 million that this school has gotten. an interesting program here to work with at-risk high school students. you can there about $2.9 million. the idea is they have hired a couple of guidance counselors and are paying some teachers to work with students after school. we have the full statewide figures for you here. new hampshire has been a beneficiary of the stimulus project. look at that, $31 million, 79 jobs saying across the state. the idea is to help schools deal with kids who are in troubled situations, at-risk students. this is one of the project that say might come up today while the president is right there at the school that has gotten that money and good example of a time