Would this be the beginning of a new New Deal?
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By Michael A. Fletcher
Sunday, February 1, 2009
8. In a word, no. But the plan includes some efforts to strengthen the existing social safety net, most notably by bolstering aid to ensure that millions who have lost their jobs have access to health insurance. The plan also includes big increases in education spending, from preschool through college. Many see aspects of that proposed spending less as strictly stimulus and more as a down payment on Obama's campaign promise to broaden access to health care and education and to make other changes to counter economic trends that have left most Americans with stagnant incomes and mounting debt over the past eight years.
