WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers toward recovery.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and additional jobless benefits to those idled by the business slump.
WASHINGTON — There's no need to go to Washington to hear the increasingly shrill arguments over phantom congressional districts and the number of jobs created by the $787 billion economic-stimulus plan.
It took months of deliberation, presidential prodding and a last-minute, $300 million deal to start Senate debate on the health care bill. It took until the next morning to be back at square one.
There's no need to go to Washington to hear the increasingly shrill arguments over the number of jobs created by the $787 billion economic-stimulus plan.
Gov. Don Carcieri's administration has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chill and put unemployed people to work during one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression.
Washington » The one highly visible success of the stimulus bill has been the cash-for-clunkers program. It induced a boom in vehicle sales this summer that would not have happened otherwise.
A variety of economists say that economic stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would.
Thanks to the federal stimulus package, archaeologists have unearthed an American Indian campsite at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Shirley, dating from before the first Europeans reached Long Island.
