President Obama will be in Texas today. However the Tea party Right wingers want to Protest against Obama . I wonder what are they protesting against, Are they protesting against George Bush’s 2 wars and the deficit , the unemployment , Financial crisis and the Billion dollor worth of tax cut for the corporations Bush created or Cheney's torturing or are they protesting against something they don’t even know what they are protesting against or are they protesting against them losing the election in 2008 or are they protesting against Bush and the right wingers ruining America for the last 8 years.
SAN FRANCISCO – President Barack Obama, who has called on Americans to perform more community service, is joining former President George H.W. Bush in urging citizens to volunteer.
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So far, stimulus has helped add, save 650+ jobs in Arizona
By Enric Volante
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 10.16.2009
advertisementThe Tucson-area Pascua Yaqui Tribe reported creating or saving 116 jobs with federal stimulus money in the early months of President Obama's recovery program.
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The federal stimulus package is paying the salaries of more than 16,000 Hoosiers, according to an early report card released Thursday by state officials.
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The billions of dollars in stimulus funds moving through the United States has so far made a minor pit stop in Texas: 1,100 jobs have been created or saved, and several Fort Worth-area companies have landed about $8 million in contracts, according new information from recovery.gov, a federal Web site that tracks stimulus spending.
Congresswoman Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth, said the low number of jobs created was precisely why she voted against the stimulus plan, called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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RI says stimulus money created or kept 1,703 jobs
By Ray Henry
Associated Press Writer / October 15, 2009
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Sending your articleYour article has been sent. E-mail| Print| Yahoo! Buzz| Text size – + PROVIDENCE, R.I.—An infusion of federal stimulus money has created or preserved 1,703 jobs in Rhode Island during one of the state's worst recessions since the Great Depression, Gov. Don Carcieri's office said Thursday.
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By Wayne FreedmanSAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A government watchdog group offered the first solid numbers on the impact of the economic stimulus program. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, $16 billion in federal contracts have been awarded to businesses -- large and small. They report having created, or saved, more than 30,000 jobs in construction, on military bases and at national parks.
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Wyoming reports 515 jobs from federal stimulus
Associated Press - October 15, 2009 7:05 PM ET
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming reports that state and local spending from the federal economic stimulus program has created or retained the equivalent of 515 jobs in the state since it started early this year.
Wyoming submitted lengthy reports to the federal government last weekend about the effect of the federal stimulus program in the state. State officials say the final figures are still subject to change before they're released later this month.
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State: Stimulus $$ created or saved 1990 jobs
October 15, 2009
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Sending your articleYour article has been sent. E-mail| Print| Yahoo! Buzz| Text size – + MONTPELIER, Vt.—The state of Vermont says 1,990 jobs have been created or retained in the state due to money from the $787 billion federal bailout
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$72,408 Per Stimulus Job? White House Says No
October 15, 2009 4:51 PM
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Jake Tapper and Lisa Chinn report:
Five hundred billion dollars in stimulus monies for spending were appropriated last February. Of that, $143 billion in stimulus funds have been spent so far.
Just $16 billion of that was directly awarded by the Federal government; most of the money went to states and localities to spend.
Of the $16 billion awarded, $2.2 billion has actually gone to these contractors to create jobs.
Today the White House released data indicating that 30,383 jobs were directly created by these stimulus dollars.
"It is too soon to draw any global conclusions from this partial and preliminary data," Recovery Act Chief Economist Jared Bernstein said in a statement, "but the early indications are quite positive. The direct count by Recovery Act recipients of jobs created or saved from this small percentage of the Recovery Act exceeds our projections. "
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More Jobs Information at the recovery.com
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Stimulus money creates 30 Salinas Municipal Airport jobs
By SANDRA M. CHUNG • schung@thecalifornian.com • October 15, 2009
Despite construction delays caused by Tuesday's storm, an airport repaving project funded by federal stimulus money is on track to finish "on schedule and under budget," according to Gary Petersen, Salinas Municipal Airport manager.
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Stimulus figures show job creation
WASHINGTON — Businesses reported creating or saving more than 30,000 jobs in the first months of President Obama's stimulus program, according to initial data released Thursday by a government oversight board. Military construction led the way, and the biggest boost was in states in the South and Southwest.
The new job numbers — in line with expectations for such an early accounting — offer the first hard data on effects of the $787 billion stimulus program.
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Milling asphalt, pouring concrete, repairing hangar doors, upgrading electricity distribution and other construction work at Dyess Air Force Base has created or saved an estimated 186 jobs so far in Taylor County.
That’s almost 14 percent of the 1,100 jobs created or saved in Texas from a small slice of the federal stimulus awarded to private contractors, according to information the federal government released Thursday on the $787 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — 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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Wyoming reports 515 jobs from federal stimulus
Wyoming reports federal stimulus has created or retained 515 jobs for state this year
By Ben Neary, Associated Press Writer
On 11:24 am EDT, Friday October 16, 2009
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The state of Wyoming reports that state and local spending from the federal economic stimulus program has created or retained the equivalent of 515 jobs in the state since it started early this year.
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Ga. credits stimulus with 23,000 jobs
2 hrs 7 mins ago | 68 views | 0 | 1 | | ATLANTA (AP) — The federal stimulus package has created more than 23,000 jobs in Georgia according to a state report.
Some 18 state agencies have spent $702 million of the $3.2 billion allocated to them since President Barack Obama approved the $787 billion stimulus package in February. A report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says that resulted in 23,879 jobs created or retained in Georgia.
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State list of jobs created or saved after stimulus
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State-by-state list of the number and types of jobs created or saved by companies that received a total of about $16 billion in federal contracts in the early months under the $787 billion economic stimulus program. Partial numbers represent part-time employment. The top categories for jobs were construction and professional services.
State Total jobs Construction ProfServices Other
Ala. 357.31 225.54 18.59 113.18
Alaska 286.86 218.72 38.14 30
Ariz. 662.42 351.76 117.3 193.36
Ark. 163.47 127.37 2 34.1
Calif. 2240.05 689.44 233.57 1317.04
Colo.x 4710.05 97.8 104.57 4507.68
Conn. 20.15 0 6.65 13.5
Del. 125.83 100 0.3 25.53
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