US labor groups urge 2-year, $900 billion stimulus

reuters.com — The U.S. economy needs a $900 billion government boost focused on Main Street over the next two years to pull it out of a deep recession, a new report from labor and public interest groups said on Tuesday.

"We need a substantial, strategic and sustained plan to get this economy going," said Robert Borosage, co-director of Institute for America's Future, a research group that helped craft the report and describes one of its core missions as challenging "failed conservative policies."