Category Archives: Stimulus

After 9/11: A decade of deaths, marriages, war and peace

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Six-year-olds often times forget their own last names, but I remember Tuesday, September 11, 2001, like it was last week. I remember wearing my favorite jumper and my mother braiding my hair. I remember eating scrambled eggs off a yellow plate. And then I remember the radio anchor said, ‘Wow! Have [...]

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Stimulus cash for weatherization still unspent

By doris | Published: August 13, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com LINCOLN, Neb. – Jackie Harpst expected a busy summer at her nonprofit housing agency, as work crews backed by Nebraska’s share of $5 billion in federal stimulus money headed out to seal windows and spread insulation. Months after she thought work would begin, not a single window has been caulked. And [...]

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Stimulus funds spent to keep Sun Belt cool

By doris | Published: June 9, 2009

Full Story At  news.cnet.com CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla.–The federal government is spending $5 billion in stimulus money to weatherize homes across the country. That is almost as much as it has spent on weatherization since the program was created in the 1970s to cut heating bills and conserve oil for low-income people. But this year, there is [...]

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Why AIG Stumbled, And Taxpayers Now Own It

By doris | Published: May 18, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS) Of all the corporate bailouts that have taken place over the past year, none has proved more costly or contentious than the rescue of American International Group (AIG). Its reckless bets on subprime mortgages threatened to bring down Wall Street and the world economy last fall until the U.S [...]

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King: Bus routes to be closed; stimulus money can’t help

By doris | Published: March 29, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com BALLWIN, Missouri (CNN) — For Stuart and Dianne Falk, it is a two-bus, 45-minute trip into downtown St. Louis to head to the gym and to volunteer at a theater group. And it is a lifeline that ends Friday. “To be saddled, to be imprisoned, that is what it is going [...]

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Stimulus Money Already Creating Jobs

By doris | Published: March 7, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS) President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package won final approval less than a month ago, and the money is already being put to work on construction, infrastructure, government and social services projects around the country. CBS news correspondents Jeff Glor and Ben Tracy take a look at two places [...]

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