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Your Tax Dollars at Work

The ARRA dropped big bucks in Ann Arbor

by James Leonard

posted 12/6/2010

Whether you hate it as a boondoggle or hail it as a blessing, there’s no question that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was good to Ann Arbor. Between February 2009 and May 2010, the financial stimulus gave local entities a total of $430 million. That’s $3,900 for every man, woman, and child in town—and three times the national average of $1,170.

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