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To gauge the impact of the economic slump hitting Texas, look no further than the dilemma facing the Houston-area school districts of Conroe and Cypress-Fairbanks. Together, the two districts have taken the extraordinary step of temporarily halting construction...
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House Democrats are hesitant to label the new legislation another stimulus ahead of the December debate. Despite continued support for the massive package of spending and tax cuts passed earlier this year, many liberals have begun to question the direction...
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State auditors said Monday that California corrections officials overstated how many jobs they saved using more than $1 billion in federal stimulus money, listing thousands of jobs that were never in jeopardy. In its report to the federal government last...
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More than $135,000 in federal stimulus money originally meant for this dying town's housing authority remains held up as the authority explores what it could do with the money. The Picher Housing Authority never sought the money, but the federal stimulus...
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The state, which is facing a shortfall of more than a $1 billion in the next fiscal year, will have used $1.5 billion in stimulus funds to help prop up the more than $7 billion general fund budget during the recession. The largest single portion of the...
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Gordon Southern, director of the Walton-Tipton Township Public Library, is hoping to start offering residents the free access early next year. “Our goal right now, since we are waiting on stimulus money, is the first of March,” he said. Southern said...
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Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says in its 20-year plan released this week that federal economic stimulus money does not solve immediate or long-term funding needs. The report says that the state's highway trust fund will need significant...
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Devaney, who oversees Recovery.gov , the government's stimulus-tracking Web site. The Obama administration reported last month that the stimulus has created or saved about 640,000 jobs thus far. Some recipients' failure to report spending data last month...
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The Egyptian Health Department will hold a public forum 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the SIC Foundation Building to discuss a $9 million grant awarded to the agency. A picture of what could happen in the Harrisburg school district as state cash-flow problems...
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The federal government and Shelton State Community College are still pointing fingers at each other after a federal report cited the college for giving a questionable account of its share of federal stimulus funds. Shelton State was lumped with 12 other...
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