On the heels of a national study showing the human toll that will be experienced if key provisions within the federal stimulus package are allowed to end, Iowa Workforce Development Deputy Director Joseph Walsh is calling for Congress to renew unemployment and COBRA benefits.
Joseph Walsh
“The unemployment [...]By Mike Thayer
Spending at all levels is out of control, it's GOT to stop.
FEDERAL LEVEL:
• $700 billion bailout that was supposed to keep credit flowing to Main Street, but ended up in Detroit, Wall Street, and Europe
• $787 billion stimulus package that was supposed to jump-start the economy but left [...]
Yesterday's White House Jobs Forum included a "green economy" component, in which "East Coast urban entrepreneurs" sought to ingratiate themselves with the Obama Administration so as to obtain government subsidies for products and services that nobody wants. Watch for the deals to be consummated in the next [...]
By PETER HUSSMANN
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that Elevance Renewable Sciences will receive a $2.5 million grant to help fund a pilot project at the Newton biodiesel plant aimed at turning biomass material into high-value chemicals and fuels.
Funding for the Elevance project at the Central Iowa Energy facility [...]
Iowa will receive $1.16 million from federal stimulus money for the state to launch an electronic health records system, Gov. Chet Culver announced this afternoon.
The grant is part of a 90-percent federal match that will help the state’s human services and public health departments begin an incentive program for medical [...]
…with roughly a quarter of the stimulus money out the door after nine months, the accumulation of hard data and real-life experience has allowed more dispassionate analysts to reach a consensus that the stimulus package, messy as it is, is working.
The legislation, a variety of economists [...]
Several news agencies are reporting that Recovery.gov, the Obama administration's Web site to track stimulus spending, has been calculating jobs created or *saved* in non-existent congressional districts.
Examples of the website either making things up or just being inept:
The site listed Minnesota receiving $400,000 in stimulus [...]
It’s saving or creating jobs in congressional districts that don’t even exist.
Wow, impressive. ABC News reports:
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. [...]
Federal stimulus for Medicaid has boosted jobs and incomes in Iowa while meeting the immediate health needs of vulnerable Iowans enduring a recession, researchers with the Iowa Fiscal Partnership reported today.
“Increased Medicaid spending has an economic benefit for the state of Iowa far greater than the federal government’s initial [...]
A projected $184 million drop in federal stimulus cash for Iowa’s Medicaid program next year spells trouble to Iowa’s most vulnerable residents, economists warned today.
Medicaid is a state and federal program that provides health care to nearly 411,000 Iowans. The majority of participants – 54 percent – are children while [...]
Miscellany to kick off the weekend.
John Piper: 9 Ways to Know the Gospel of Christ Is True Principled Discovery: Why I’m not a “crunchy con” The Foundry: New Study Shows Tax Cuts Most Effective Stimulus Investors Business Daily: Power To Spare (their take on Sarah Palin [...]
