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California could lose energy stimulus funds, auditor says
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | about 6 hours ago
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Auditor Elaine Howle said in a new report that the state agency tapped to hand out the energy program money to benefit recession-weary Californians also has insufficient internal controls to detect and stop taxpayers' cash from being misused. "The California...
Tags: Elaine Howle, California Energy Commission, stimulus money, Melissa Jones, Sacramento, Environment, Inspector General, 111th United States Congress, Presidency of Barack Obama, Climate crisis, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, United States federal banking legislation, United States Department of Energy
Health care benefit for the jobless to soon end
San Jose :: CA :: USA | about 13 hours ago
Credibility After losing his job in February, and now facing a possible foreclosure sale of his San Jose house three days before Christmas, the unemployed operations manager learned Tuesday that his monthly government-subsidized health insurance premiums will immediately...
Tags: Jim Kvek, health care, Jim Chase, San Jose, Social Issues, 111th United States Congress, Healthcare reform in the United States, Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, Presidency of Barack Obama, Climate crisis, Uninsured in the United States, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, United States federal banking legislation, Labor
Report: Obama's stimulus plan is creating new jobs
Boston :: MA :: USA | about 14 hours ago
Credibility Obama’s stimulus plan is creating new jobs The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday that the stimulus has yielded between 600,000 and 1.6 million new jobs...Although the CBO report stamps the White House estimates as credible, it’s...
Tags: White House, Obama, Boston, Politics, Barack Obama, Presidency of Barack Obama, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, John Boehner, Unemployment, 111th United States Congress, Climate crisis, Darrell Issa, United States federal banking legislation, Labor, Community organizers
Stimulus Working Pretty Much As Planned, CBO Says
New York :: NY :: USA | about 19 hours ago
Credibility The $787 billion fiscal stimulus program approved in February is working pretty much as expected, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. U.S. employment is about 600,000 to 1.6 million higher, and real gross domestic product is about 1.2% to 3.2%...
Tags: CBO, working pretty, New York, Business Finance, 111th United States Congress, Presidency of Barack Obama, United States federal budget, Climate crisis, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Fiscal policy, United States federal banking legislation, Labor, Congressional Budget Office
Growing Dem attacks on the first stimulus
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Caucus, said that he and his colleagues have “enormous dissatisfaction” with the stimulus and the $700 billion bailout for banks that was approved in 2008. He said Washington hasn’t done enough for Main Street in comparison to Wall Street, where banks...
Tags: New York City, Public finance, Tax cut, Politics, 111th United States Congress, Business Finance, Presidency of Barack Obama, Climate crisis, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, United States federal banking legislation, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
Farmers seek drought aid after floods
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Such is the concern that a new application has been submitted for drought assistance consideration. Queensland government pasture scientists say floods earlier this year inundated pastures for more than three months and were so prolonged that the grass...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Environment, Thirst, Queensland, Bethel, Hydrology, Climatology, Government of Queensland, Climate crisis, Drought, Hebrew Bible, Disaster Accident, Droughts
Naomi Klein: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis
Ban :: India | 1 day ago
Credibility Yes, independent journalist Naomi Klein joining us from Toronto, Canada to talk about the latest shocks to the economy and with the climate summit in Copenhagen just two weeks away, the coming together of a global movement for climate justice. She is...
Tags: Copenhagen, Battle of Seattle, climate change, African Union, Naomi Klein, climate crisis, developing world, Obama, focused ones, John Kerry, India, Ban
Don’t Look to D.C. to Help Job Crisis
Berlin :: Germany | 1 day ago
Credibility Talk of giving a much-needed jolt to the job market has petered out of late in the offices and chambers where something could actually be done about the country’s pervasive employment crisis. This priority problem in policy circles is unacceptable to...
Tags: Germany, Berlin, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Labor, Paul Krugman, Tax cut, Politics, Unemployment, 111th United States Congress, Presidency of Barack Obama, Macroeconomics, Enron, Full employment, Stimulus, Regional science, Climate crisis, Labor economics, United States federal banking legislation
Farmers in despair as El Niño fails
Nyanza :: Rwanda | 1 day ago
Credibility Crops wither and rivers dry up in parts of the North Rift Farmers who had planted crops in anticipation of El Niño rains are counting their losses after they failed. Most crops in farms in the North Rift have started to wither as drought persists in...
Tags: El Niño, niño rains, Rwanda, Nyanza, Environment, El Niￃﾱo-Southern Oscillation, Thirst, Hydrology, Climatology, Climate crisis, Drought, Wheat, Disaster Accident, Droughts
Lobbyists rush to high-speed rail
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility High-Speed Rail Association’s October conference opened like any Washington gathering...A powerhouse law firm laid out prints of its lobbyists’ biographies...Marriott meeting room went dark, a film offered romantic visions of bullet trains in America’s...
Tags: U.S. High-Speed Rail Association, Washington, High-speed trains, Amtrak, Business Finance, 111th United States Congress, Rail transport, Presidency of Barack Obama, High-speed rail, Climate crisis, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
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