Tag: American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
A Big Picture Look At the Stimulus One Year On
And it is — on the terms it was passed — a definite success. David Leonhart wrote this must read article at the NYT on Tuesday, that starts like this: Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked. Let’s say this bill had started spending money within a matter […]
High-Risk Energy Grants Awarded To Delaware
Over $150 million in grants were awarded to 37 different “radical” energy research projects reports The New York Times. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), that received its initial funding of $400 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is distributing the monies in 17 states. ARPA-E breaks down the distribution further: Of the lead […]
Obama Details Help to Small Businesses
All across America, even today, on a Saturday, millions of Americans are hard at work. They’re running the mom and pop stores and neighborhood restaurants we know and love. They’re building tiny startups with big ideas that could revolutionize an industry, maybe even transform our economy. They are the more than half of all Americans […]
Okay. Mike Castle is our Next Senator. It has been decided on high.
All the signs are pointing to a Castle Senate run and I appears that the fix is in. Just check out the Newark Post coverage of the AMTRACK stimulus event:
The Amtrak Bear Car Shops took time out to celebrate the completion of the first passenger car to be rebuilt with stimulus funds.
Sen. Thomas Carper, Gov. Jack Markell and U.S. Rep. Mike Castle joined Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman and employees at the sprawling complex off Route 40 to tour the rebuilt car that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Wednesday’s Open Thread
Yesterday, we had our first successful open thread with some good discussion and links from our readers. Well done, people, well done. For a starting point, some posts yesterday that you might have missed are that a Republican actually stood up to Rush Limbaugh, Kris Kristofferson is kind of cool and Vermont legalizes it (gay […]
GOP Governors Can Reject Stimulus Money
A non-partisan Congressional Report just released concludes “that it likely would be unconstitutional for a legislature to supplant a governor in accepting and using economic stimulus money.” The Congressional Research Service analysis could imperil tens of millions of stimulus dollars reserved for South Carolina and Texas, whose governors have said they will reject some of […]
Delaware’s Slowness with ARRA
According to Recovery.org, Delaware is not certified for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds nor do we have a website for transparency of ARRA funds. The following states are ARRA certified: Connecticut, District of Columbia (yes, I know they are not a state), Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, […]
QoD: What’s Jim Sills Doing?
What do Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas and Colorado NOT have in common with Delaware? All of these states have websites that detail how they are spending their American Recovery and Reinvestment monies. Delaware does not. Gov. Markell, it’s time to get Jim Sills to work.
GOP Stimulus Myths Exposed
Media Matters: It does a body good. $220,000 per job? Try $70,000. $30 million for the salt marsh harvest mouse? Not in the bill. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that full cost will reach $3.2 trillion by 2019? No, their estimate was $787,242,000. $2/$4 billion for ACORN? Nope. $2 billion for ACORN-elligible community block grants? […]
Chart of the Day
Great graphic depiction of the recovery plan — with the old numbers, though: And once you get the larger image, you can click anywhere on it to see it closer. (h/t creditloan.com)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
The time has come for Republicans to put their NO votes where their mouths are. Let them filibuster.
On Boosting Congressional Financial Literacy
Steven Pearlstein, a business columnist for the Washington Post writes a scathing column asking for a Personal Financial Trainer for every Representative and Senator in Congress. Pearlstein isn’t concerned about overheated rhetoric — he is pointing out the real deficiencies in knowledge here, deficiencies (no matter the policy differences) are actually pretty scary. He finds […]
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