Weatherization billions in stimulus questioned

Feb 16, 2009 by nextstepliving
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MSNBC – Critics of the $787 billion economic stimulus program are not really balking over caulking: They just don’t think pouring substantially more money into home weatherization will give a quick kick to the reeling economy.

There’s $5 billion for weatherizing modest-income homes over the next few years in the sweeping stimulus legislation that Congress sent to President Barack Obama.

Obama wants a sevenfold jump in the number of homes weatherized each year — from about 140,000 to 1 million households.

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