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Harry Reid: Screw the states and their budgets, we'll bail them out with taxpayers dollars if we have to
11 hours ago ago from Republican Products and Gifts
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21 hours ago ago from Lucas\' Blog
These state agencies took the biggest cuts when the State Budget and Control Board decided to trim state spending for the rest of this budget year by $238 million. K-12 schools - $101 million Local schools will take the biggest hit, further diminishing the impact of federal stimulus money that was supposed to save teacher jobs. HHS - $38 million Health and Human Services will turn to federal stimulus money to ...
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11 hours ago ago from thamanjimmy
Even as the state borrows $300 million a month from the federal government to pay unemployment claims, a key senator said the Legislature is unlikely to consider a change in the law that could bring more than $400 million in federal stimulus money to Florida. Even without modernization, a series of changes approved by the Legislature last year and the erosion of the trust fund will push tax rates up from about $8.40 an employee this year to ...
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12 hours ago ago from Peacock Poverty
Missing: $330 Million in Federal Affordable Housing Funds The Ontario government can’t account for one-third of a billion in federal housing funding – that’s enough money to build more than 5,500 new homes across the province. The Ontario Auditor-General, in his annual report released December 7, reports that the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing cannot explain whether the federal funds were actually spent on ...
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7 hours ago ago from MrGreen.Biz
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Florida Governor Signs Bill to Expand Rail Service
4 hours ago ago from The New York Times
MIAMI Gov. Charlie Crist signed a package of legislation into law on Wednesday that seeks to shore up commuter rail service in South Florida, add service in the state's center and win billions of dollars in federal money for a bullet train linking Tampa and Orlando. Chris O'Meara/Associated Press Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida signing a high-speed rail bill. Related Times Topics: Charlie Crist At a news conference ...
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6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The Treasury Department is backing off its plans to help Citigroup free itself from partial government ownership after the markets priced Citi's shares below Treasury's cost. Treasury was planning to sell up to $5 billion of its Citi shares at the same time the firm moved to repay some $20 billion in bailout funds. The key was issuing $17 billion of common stock. The troubled financial conglomerate felt confident that it could easily raise ...
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7 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Major items in the House's $174 billion jobs bill Key features of the House's $174 billion jobs bill: -$36 billion for highways and mass transit. -$20 billion to keep Highway Trust Fund solvent for existing obligations. -$23 billion to pay teacher salaries in an attempt to save or create about 250,000 education jobs. -$2 billion for job training, summer jobs for teenagers and for AmeriCorps. -$500 million to retain or hire ...
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