President Obama and Vice President Biden Announce Roadmap to Recovery

Washington, DC – At today’s Cabinet Meeting, Vice President Joe Biden will present to President Barack Obama the Roadmap to Recovery, an Administration-wide effort to accelerate implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in its second 100 days.  The Roadmap spotlights ten new major projects that will define the next three months of the Recovery Act and provides graphical illustrations of the activity that will be underway across the United States.  As a result of this accelerated pace of activity, over 600,000 jobs are expected to be created or saved by the Recovery Act in the second 100 days – four times the number created or saved in the first 100 days.

"We have a long way to go on our road to recovery but we are going the right way," said President Obama. "Our measure of progress is the progress the American people see in their own lives. And until that progress is steady and solid; we’re going to keep moving forward. We will not grow complacent or rest. Surely and steadily, we will turn this economy around."

"We’ve laid a good foundation in the first 100 days of the Recovery Act and in the next 100 we plan to build on that foundation and accelerate our efforts so we can accomplish even more," said Vice President Biden.  "We’re going to get more dollars out the door, more shovels into the ground and more money into the pockets of workers and families who need it most."

The ambitious effort follows an initial 100 day period of the Recovery Act focused on providing immediate relief to hard-hit families and communities, jump-starting shovel-ready projects and laying the foundation for large-scale infrastructure improvement programs.  Building upon that early work, the President and Vice President asked Cabinet Members set key targets for the second 100 days of the Recovery Act, including the following spotlighted in the Roadmap to Recovery:

Maps detailing the broad swath of activity planned across the United States in the second 100 days of the Recovery Act because of these ten commitments can be found on WhiteHouse.gov/Recovery, a new webpage launching today at 11:00AM EST that will allow the public to follow America’s Recovery story and hear from people across the country whose lives are being influenced by the Recovery Act.  The new site provides snapshots of Recovery Act dollars at work, the latest Recovery news and opportunities for visitors to share their Recovery stories through comments, photos and videos, while Recovery.gov <http://www.recovery.gov/>  remains the go-to site for tracking Recovery Act spending.

President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law on February 17, 2009 as the nation faced the greatest economic crisis in half a century.  The Recovery Act is the most sweeping economic package in the history of the country.  In the just over 100 days since it was enacted, over 150,000 jobs have been created or saved by the Recovery Act and over $135 billion has been obligated to programs and projects that create jobs and lay the foundation for a secure economic future.

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