Eagle Peak Rock and Paving created and saved 32 jobs thanks to an $8 million federal stimulus contract to repair Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park.
But you won’t find that on Recovery.gov, the government’s Web site for tracking stimulus money.
You also won’t find the eight employees [...]
$6 million dollars from the stimulus bill is going to Hillary Clinton’s pollster Mark Penn.
The award of 5.97 million dollars is for help in the digital television transition. According to the White House 3 jobs will be saved.
Let’s see the taxpayers are now paying 2 million dollars [...]
Hopefully any new plan will have a better ROI than the current stimulus package. Economic analyst Ed Yardeni runs the numbers:
The Obama Administration is touting that their stimulus program has saved or created 640,329 jobs since it was enacted back in February through the end of October. [...]
[...] Unemployment fell from 10.2% to 10% as the economy lost 11,000 jobs in November. It is encouraging to see the slowdown in jobs lost.
Also, the seasonally-adjusted U6 rate, a measurement of under-employment, fell from 16.8% to 16.3%.
Paul Krugman, whose NY Times column can usually be reduced [...]
$70 Million in Stimulus Funds will create hundreds of local construction jobs, 500 permanent positions
Washington, DC – Business and civic leaders in Queen Anne’s County are praising the announcement earlier this week that the General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Department of State have chosen the county as [...]
The White House had its jobs summit yesterday, which, while nice, is an admission that they have no idea how to address unemployment, even after all the money that’s been spent. Hopefully, it’s also an admission that, like Marc Ambinder says in the linked piece:
the White House does [...]
...The Recovery Act made a down payment for clean energy jobs, primarily through public spending. But the creation of a carbon market would drive private investment away from pollution and into clean [...]
Treasury's mortgage modification program has produced zero permanent repayment plans. CalculatedRisk comment rescue ~
After requesting in March for help, I was offered a modification in late July. I made trial payments, accepted it, got it notarized per instructions, and sent [...]
The Oil Refinery that produces 70% of the gasoline for the Delmarva Peninsula is shutting down. The Delaware City Refinery which has provided high paying jobs to Delawareans for decades has been losing money to the tune of $1 million dollars a day in 2009. 550 Workers will be [...]
Charlie Copeland = Jobs & People
John Kowalko = Cap & Trade, RGGI & Unions.
Notice the opponent of industry, the redistributionist Kowalko, never mentions one iota of sympathy for those involved. John Kowalko’s a good guy. He’s just dead wrong too often.
We need jobs, folks. And people with [...]
Republican activist and free market think-tanker Grant Bosse formally declared his candidacy today in New Hampshire’s 00th Congressional District after news that the Obama administration has attributed a majority of the state’s stimulus jobs to that non-existent district.
New Hampshire has only two congressional districts, neither of which [...]
At the Daily Kos, Meteor Blades grabs this graph from CalculatedRisk today.
The Government Accountability Office released a report (PDF) today criticizing the quality of the data used to calculate how many jobs have been generated by the stimulus.
Welcome to the club, GAO. Here are some of the highlights:
Nearly 4,000 reports filed [...]
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein feels bad about crashing our economy. To make up for it, he's said he's sorry and has decided to give back $500 million of the money his company has made to small businesses. It's a gesture so empty, it's insulting. Never [...]
