President Obama signed the stimulus package bill to boost the American economy to create jobs on Feb 2009. His hard work has paid off finally. Yes there are thousands of jobs have been created all over the country and thousands of jobs have been saved in America. President Obama has to be given credit for creating these thousands of jobs and saving many family’s income, jobs and their life. Although the right wingers , the republicans and his opponents complained and criticized about President Obama’s hard work he has done an excellent , outstanding job in creating and saving these American’s Income and their life.
Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.
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Gov. Ted Kulongoski says the first wave of federal stimulus spending flowing through the state government created or saved the equivalent of more than 8,000 full-time jobs in Oregon.
Kulongoski announced results Monday of the state's first report on the impact of stimulus spending. The reports to the federal government are required every three months during the three-year program.
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Public school teachers are expected to be the big winners when states around the U.S. reveal for the first time how many jobs were created or saved during the first months of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan.
State officials worked into the
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In Colorado, stimulus spending will save hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs in public higher education threatened by state budget cuts, said Myung Oak Kim, a spokeswoman for Gov. Bill Ritter's office.
"Those dollars allowed us to save a lot of jobs," Kim said.
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Bredesen administration officials reported Monday that Tennessee has spent $203.7 million in federal stimulus funds that so far have created or retained an estimated 7,710 jobs.
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Officials said $215 million in stimulus spending in Tennessee has created more than 7,700 jobs.
The data is part of the state's first report to the federal government on the effects of stimulus spending.
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Nearly 12,000 jobs have been saved or created in Minnesota through the federal stimulus program, state officials reported Monday.
It is the first job figure to be reported since President Barack Obama signed the controversial $787 billion stimulus bill into law in February and served to soften the blow to a state that has hemorrhaged tens of thousands of jobs in that time.
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More than 100,000 jobs have been saved or created in California from the $5.3 billion in federal stimulus money state agencies have spent so far, according to a preliminary report released Saturday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration.
The report from the California Recovery Task Force was based on nearly 6,000 reports it submitted to the federal government on behalf of state agencies and their grantees detailing their job creation through Sept. 30. The reports were due by midnight Saturday.
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About 19,500 jobs in Michigan were saved or created through the end of September with federal stimulus money, according to the state's first accounting of how the money was spent.
About 74 percent of the jobs were at schools or related to education, according to a state report released Monday. Many of the jobs were likely teachers or others who would have been laid off without the federal money.
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President Barack Obama's stimulus plan spared tens of thousands of teachers from losing their jobs, state officials said Monday amid a nationwide effort to calculate the effect of Washington's $787 billion recovery package.
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Washington » Utah says the influx of stimulus cash to state programs has helped save or create more than 4,000 jobs, much of it keeping teachers in their classrooms as the economy tanked.
The state, in a report filed with the federal government, says by the end of last month it had spent $519 million in stimulus funds, allowing the state or its agencies to curb job losses or boost the number of employed Utahns.
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Federal stimulus spending has created or saved thousands of Oregon jobs, state officials boasted Monday, but at least three out of every four positions were in government work, according to the state's own figuring.
The lion's share of the money -- about $750 million, went to beefing up entitlement programs, such as Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps.
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Is the largest one-time economic recovery effort in U.S. history creating jobs?
According to new reports from governors across the country, it is. Republicans in Congress say it's not, and the debate is getting louder.
States and other recipients of stimulus funding have handed in their first assessments of the $787 billion recovery act in recent days. While the Obama administration plans to make these reports public by month's end, some governors have released their initial evaluations.
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More than 8,600 New Mexico teachers, construction workers and police officers kept their jobs or found new employment thanks to the federal stimulus package, says a new quarterly report by the state Office of Recovery and Reinvestment.
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The federal stimulus has provided paychecks this year for nearly 12,000 jobs in Minnesota schools, prisons, state psychiatric institutions and construction on roads and sewer and water systems.
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Federal Stimulus Money In Michigan Creates, Saves 20,000 Jobs
LANSING - The presence of federal stimulus money in Michigan created or saved almost 20,000 jobs, mostly in education, according to a report the state submitted to the federal government that was released Monday.
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About 19,500 jobs in Michigan were saved or created through the end of September with federal stimulus money, according to the state’s first accounting of how the money was spent.
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Public school teachers are expected to be the big winners when states around the U.S. reveal for the first time how many jobs were created or saved during the first months of President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan.
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Window installers, arts coordinators and new teachers for children who have learning disabilities are among the jobs credited to North Dakota's $571.2 million share of federal stimulus money, a new state report says.
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President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan spared tens of thousands of teachers from losing their jobs, state officials said Monday amid a nationwide effort to calculate the effect of Washington’s $787 billion recovery package.
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Public schoolteachers are expected to be the big winners when states around the United States reveal for the first time how many jobs were created or saved during the first months of President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan.
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