$6 MILLION in stimulus money to Mark Penn. Is this building a bridge to the future?The White House “Jobs Summit” is neither. First, for those of the liberal persuasion, the president has ruled out another federal stimulus bill to boost government job growth, which is good because we can’t afford it.
Second, for those of us who believe the only way to create real wealth is [...]
December won't be kind to the millions of Americans still looking for work in this sluggish economy. After December 31, over 1 million workers will lose eligibility for the next tier of unemployment insurance benefits provided by the economic stimulus plan. And beginning today, 7 million unemployed individuals will' [...]
In just three days, President Obama will convene his latest White House summit. Beer won't be served at this particular function, however. Instead, lawmakers, business leaders, union officials, and economists will join administration officials to discuss how to spur job growth and protect the long-term unemployed.
Politics will prevent Obama from passing another stimulus package along' [...]
If you haven't seen one of those orange and green "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" construction signs in your part of Illinois recently, you may have -- as most of us -- forgotten that in Obama's federal stimulus legislation, there was supposed to be check and balance. Indeed, a Recovery Independent [...]
from the RNCC
The controversy over the stimulus package continues, both nationally and in Illinois – creating a political problem for the Illinois Democrats who blindly supported the bill that has created more government, but not more jobs.
All three of Illinois’ vulnerable Democrats in the House- Melissa Bean, [...]
Now that roughly one-quarter of the money allocated in President Obama's stimulus plan has flown out the door, a consensus among economists about the effectiveness of the package is emerging. The New York Times' reports:
The legislation, a variety of economists say, is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to [...]
The honeymoon is definitely over for Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live.When asked by show host Judge Andrew Napolitano whether his potential constituents understand that the problem of too much borrowing and spending cannot be solved with more of the same, Ratowitz related a campaign trail encounter with a group of union carpenters “disgusted” by the various federal bailout and stimulus [...]
Sometime later this year, we Taxpayers may again receive an Economic
Stimulus Payment. The Obama Administration is very excited about this
new program. Let me try to explain to you how it works using a simple
Q and A format:
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A. [...]
from Kristina Rasmussen, Illinois Policy Institute
Picking up on a story from ABC News about stimulus jobs created in phantom congressional districts, I sorted the Illinois job count spreadsheet from Recovery.gov by recipient congressional district, and I found jobs/awards reported for the following "districts":
District "0"
20th District
21st District
22nd District
28th District
33rd [...]
“The government reports touting the number of jobs created by the [...]
by Mark Silva and updated
The Obama administration promised "transparency'' in the accounting of that $787 billion in economic stimulus spending.
Jonathan Karl and his eagle-eyed colleagues at ABC News saw right through it: In the case of those 30 jobs created or saved and $761,420 spent in Arizona's'" [...]
by Jim Puzzanghera
For more than 15.4 million people, the "Making Work Pay'' tax credit enacted as part of the $787-billion economic stimulus package could turn out to be a Making You Pay Back tax credit.
That's the finding of a government watchdog report about the tax credit, which provides" [...]
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A Silent Stimulus?
To weather the unrelenting economic recession without slashing services, state governments are going to need more assistance from Washington. Luckily, some help is on the way. And it's coming via an unlikely source.
Michigan's economy has been in a free-fall for several years. The Great Lake State has the nation's highest unemployment rate. More than any state, Michigan needs jobs. Nobel Prize-winning economis Paul Krugman advises, if the United States will not employ a "conventional stimulus," then the United States should consider European solutions to the Great Recession.
Here in America, the philosophy behind jobs policy can be summarized as “if you grow it, [...]
