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As part of the $787 billion fiscal stimulus package earlier this year, lawmakers included $375 million to support Small Business Administration (SBA) programs to spur lending through higher guarantees and reduced fees. The administration credits the...
Tags: small businesses, SBA, stimulus package, Obama, Los Angeles, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama, Mary Landrieu, SBA ARC Loan Program, Steve Preston, Small Business Administration, Business models, Small business, Politics, Business Finance
Art Levine, t r u t h o u t Report With the economy still reeling from unemployment at 10.2 percent , Democrats and progressives are battling a barrage of GOP-driven misinformation about the first $787 billion stimulus plan as they look to create a new,...
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Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent , some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big infusion,...
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Rather interesting to see big labour asking for help to small businesses and repeating the claim of organisations representing small businesses that they create most of the jobs in the US economy. The AFL CiO was a big supporter of the stimulus...
Tags: AFL-CIO, small business, US economy, stimulus package, TARP, Richard Trumka
Part of the existing public expenditure on social welfare should be redirected to fund an “ambitious” jobs stimulus package, employers’s group Ibec has said. In its pre-Budget submission, presented to the Minister for Finance today, the group said the...
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Some 15.4 million taxpayers could receive smaller refunds than they expected or owe taxes next year because they did not have enough money withheld from their paychecks as part of the Making Work Pay tax credit program, according to a report issued yesterday.
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The government had reduced the rate of excise duty to 8 per cent from 14 per cent and service tax by 2 per cent as part of the stimulus package given to the industry last year. This was bound to impact revenue collections, Central Board of Excise and...
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Senate nomination tries to sear the picture of him hugging President Barack Obama into the minds of conservative voters, the Florida governor tried late Tuesday to put some distance between himself and the president by saying he never supported the president's...
Tags: Charlie Crist, Barack Obama, president barack, Senate, stimulus package, Florida
The White House said Friday that more than 12,000 jobs were saved or created in Arizona because of President Obama's economic stimulus plan, and Gov. Jan Brewer said most were ones saved in education, despite the state's deep budget troubles. The White...
Tags: White House, stimulus package, Barack Obama, northeast Indiana, recovery act, San Antonio
U.S. manufacturers were hoping that the federal government's stimulus package would spark infrastructure spending, thus lifting their recession-battered fortunes. But in the months since Washington announced its $787 billion initiative companies that...
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