WASHINGTON — 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 ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - Hundreds of new jobs in phantom congressional districts. Nearly 500 new teaching slots in a Chicago school district that employs only 290.
As the White House tries to show that its massive stimulus package has created or ...Read More
At least funny bones are being stimulated by the Obama Administration's $787 billion economic stimulus bill. To wit, how many Americans does it take to make nine pairs of work boots? According to the White House's recovery.gov site, an $890 shoe ...Read More
The news that is not White House approved... Conservatives are not the only ones that think the president's stimulus package was a colossal failure. Believe it or not, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO and La Raza are complaining that the stimulus has not ...Read More
Leading members of Congress from both parties are promising increased scrutiny of the Obama administration's data on job creation, amid widespread errors in official stimulus data reported by the federal government. A raft of reports of questionable or downright faulty jobs ...Read More
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, who criticizes Gov. Charlie Crist for being a fan of President Barack Obama's stimulus package, is himself a fan of one of Obama's campaign ads. Rubio's U.S. Senate campaign posted a Web ...Read More
WASHINGTON—More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit. Taxpayers are at risk if they have more than one ...Read More
Wedged in the House health-care bill is $23.5 billion that looks a lot more like new federal stimulus spending than anything to do with national health-care reform. The barely debated pot of money would allow Congress to continue pumping billions in ...Read More
President Obama has announced a White House Jobs Summit for next month. At least that's the beginning of recognition that the unemployment rate is unacceptable. The measured rate is now 10.2 percent, but if you count people who have given ...Read More
Texas is in the running for hundreds of millions of federal dollars to spur school improvement, but the state's reluctance to embrace some of President Barack Obama's education reform ideas could hurt its chances. Guidelines released Thursday show Texas is eligible ...Read More
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