A study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) finds that the stimulus package helped lift tens of thousands of New Mexicans over the poverty line. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) also helped more than 200,000 with their “severity of poverty.”
The study “examine[d] the [...]
Maine Gov. John Baldacci this week will submit a budget proposal that assumes Congress will pass additional stimulus measures, Stateline.org reports today. That begs the question, How many other states, including New Mexico, will make the same assumption going into legislative session at the start of next year? (New [...]
The government has denied Desert Rock Energy Company’s bid for a federal stimulus grant, the Farmington Daily Times reported today. The company had hoped to use the money to include carbon capture sequestration technology into the project design of a coal-fired power plant near Farmington. Opponents of the project say the [...]
The Senate and the House are back in session and the topic of discussion is mostly on two fronts, health care reform and Afghanistan. However, a new study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), showing that the stimulus program has helped the economy, has also been a topic of discussion.
Tonight, [...]
Two projects in New Mexico won federal ’smart grid’ stimulus money today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced.
But it’s difficult to tell how much of the money will actually stay in New Mexico. More than $4.7 million of $6.5 million awarded to projects in New Mexico according to the [...]
Stimulus critics were abuzz this week flogging the federal Web site Recovery.gov for flaws in its first big data release. Problems ranged from confusing variation and gaps in job numbers to mistakes that put projects in nonexistent congressional districts to spending that never made it into [...]
