Obama Stimulus Plan

When Does the Preferential Treatment of Banks Become Obscene?

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 01.30.2012 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Bank Profits, Bank Bailout Profits, Bail Out Profits, Obama Stimulus Plan, Bank Bailout, Obama Stimulus Package, Politics News

How long will we permit the major banks to "game" our economic system? Or, maybe it's time to frankly acknowledge they have become the De facto fourth branch of our government, without any amendment to our Constitution.

Read Post

Zuckerman on Business Despair and Obama

Robert Teitelman | Posted 12.05.2011 | Business

Read More: Gop Stimulus, Barack Obama Stimulus, Economic Stimulus, Obama Stimulus Plan, Obama Criticism, Business News

Zuckerman's entire argument rests uneasily on his armchair reading of psychology. Consumers and executives are depressed, anxious, and they will only spend again when they feel better -- not that they are over-leveraged and that aggregate demand is deficient.

Read Post

Why Stay-At-Home Dads May Get Screwed In A Split

Beverly Willett | Posted 09.25.2011 | Divorce

Read More: Stay-at-Home Parent, Lifetime Alimony, Divorce, COBRA Legislation, Alimony Reform, Health Insurance, New York No Fault Divorce Bill, Child Support, Stay at Home Dads, Stay at Home Mothers, Alimony, Divorce News, Obama Stimulus Plan, Unemployment, No-Fault Divorce, Unemployment Benefits, Financial Crisis, Divorce News

Last year there were approximately five million stay-at-home moms in the United States. (The number decreased slightly from 2008, statistically insig...

Read Post

After Bashing Obama's Stimulus Program, Rick Scott Kept Millions In State Budget

Miami Herald | Posted 07.31.2011 | Politics

Read More: Rick Scott Budget, Florida, Obama Stimulus Plan, Rick Scott, Obama Stimulus, Rick Scott Budget Cuts, Rick Scott Stimulus, Politics News

Gov. Rick Scott campaigned against President Obama’s "failed stimulus" program -- yet the freshman politician kept nearly $370 million of the federa...

Read Whole Story

Electronic Health Records Dramatically Increase Corporate Risk

Ben Kerschberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Ben Kerschberg, Health-Privacy, Hipaa, Corporate-Liability, Obama Stimulus Plan, Legal Holds, Consero, Electronic Medical Records, Hitech Act, Ehr, Technology News

Effectively controlling the impact of demands over electronic health records is no longer a luxury. Rather, it is a business imperative that is no less than critical.

Read Post

What Can Obama Learn From Bill Clinton?

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Tax Cuts, Obama, President Bush, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Republicans, Triangulation, U.S. Economy, Obama Stimulus, Economy, Wall Street Journal, Jonah Goldberg, Stimulus, Mark Thiessen, Obama Stimulus Plan, Boston Globe, Economic Stimulus Package, Peter Baker, Stimulus Package, Jeff Jacoby, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Politics News

Bill Clinton's brief appearance last week excited both members of the media and Washington, but the question now is whether Clinton's presence can help Obama turn things around.

Read Post

Worker Training & Community Revitalization: A Stimulus Success Story

Caty Borum Chattoo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Read More: Obama Stimulus Plan, Labor, Social Justice, Workers, Unemployment, Social Change, Green Jobs, Environment, Green Jobs Training, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Stimulus Package, Impact News

The long-term results of the stimulus funding, in the form of real people, may be hard to track for years to come. But if we don't look, we might not see them.

Read Post

Obama's Stimulus Revives Car Town, Dropping Unemployment Rate

CNN Money | Steve Hargreaves | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Auto Bailout, Obama Stimulus Plan, Unemployment Rate, Delphi, Stimulus, Economy, Crysler, Business News

Kokomo is going back to work. A year and a half ago the fate of this car town, home to four Chrysler plants and a Delphi facility, was as uncertain a...

Read Whole Story

Obama's Jobs Program a Mixed Bag for Savings Accounts and Money Market Rates

Richard Barrington | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Jobs Program, Obama Jobs Program, Obama Jobs, Obama Stimulus Plan, Obama Stimulus, President Obama Jobs, Healthy Living News

Growth in employment may be the key to getting money market rates and other bank rates up from near-zero levels. So what should you make of the President's latest jobs program?

Read Post

Stimulus: The One Word The Obama Administration Is Now Avoiding

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: James Surowiecki, New Yorker, John Boehner, Economy, Public Relations, Public Opinion, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Taxes, Infrastructure, Obama Stimulus Plan, Tax Credits, Economic Stimulus Package, New Deal, Stimulus Package, Business News

President Obama was catching flak for his new stimulus plan even before he announced it last week. The problem with the proposed measures, according t...

Read Whole Story

Obama's Latest Stimulus Plan Gets Panned By Krugman

Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Obama Stimulus Plan, Krugman Stimulus, Tax Deductions, Krugman Obama, Business Tax Deductions, Obama Taxes, Business News

In a speech in Cleveland tomorrow, President Obama will propose an economic stimulus plan that would allow businesses to deduct immediately the entire...

Read Whole Story

America's Labor Day Message to Obama

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, San Jose Mercury News, Douglas E. Sizemore, Obama Stimulus, 2010 Elections, Indianapolis Star, Forth-Worth-Star-Telegram, Jobs, Recession, Obama, Stimulus, Journalism, Stimulus Plan, Obama Stimulus Plan, Miami Herald, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Labor Day, Midterm Elections, cincinnati.com, Stimulus Package, Economic Stimulus, Stimulus Bill, Economy, Elections 2010, Media News

The president's stimulus bill notwithstanding, many believe that Obama could be doing more to create jobs. Here's a selection of the best editorials from around the country offering both insights and solutions.

Read Post

Obama Announces Plan To Expand Broadband Internet Across U.S.

McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Internet, Obama Stimulus Plan, Broadband, Obama Stimulus, Obama Broadband Internet, National Broadband Plan, Technology News

More than a year after Congress passed the economic stimulus package, President Barack Obama announced that $795 million of that money will go toward ...

Read Whole Story

Tea Party problems revealed

Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Obama Stimulus Plan, The Late Show, Economy, Economic Crisis, Tea Party Patriots, Economic Stimulus, Glenn Beck, Pam Stout, Socialism, Tea Party, Barack Obama, David Letterman, Politics News

The enigmatic Tea Party movement softened its hardcore image with the recent appearance of Pam Stout, president of the Sandpoint, Idaho Tea Party Patr...

Read Post

Detroit As a Farm

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Farming, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Obama Stimulus, Stimulus Package, Agriculture, Detroit Three, Detroit, Economic Stimulus, Green Living, Usda, Stimulus, Detroit Bailout, African Americans, Politics News

That we've reached the point of entertaining the idea--of turning Detroit into a semi-rural city--reflects both a crisis of failed urban policies, and an opportunity to rebuild from the ashes.

Read Post

California Gets $93 Million, Weatherizes Just 12 Homes

California Watch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

Read More: Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Obama Stimulus, Stimulus Package, California-Stimulus, House Weatherization, Economic Stimulus, Stimulus, Stimulus Bill, Los Angeles News

Despite already receiving more than $92 million in stimulus money for the task, California's weatherization program has finished retrofitting just 12 ...

Read Whole Story

Republicans 'Killing The Truth' On Stimulus

Politics Daily | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Gop Stimulus, Republican Lies, Obama Stimulus Plan, Obama Stimulus, Gop Lies, Gop, Obama, Republicans Stimulus, Republicans, Politics News

At the White House this week, the main narrative in the press room was this: has President Barack Obama lost the message war over the $862 billion sti...

Read Whole Story

Rachel Maddow: Aaron Schock Is A Hypocrite, Downstate Congressman Called Out

NBC Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Read More: GOP Hypocrisy, Rachel Maddow, Obama Stimulus Plan, Meet the Press, Aaron Schock, Chicago News

Illinois' downstate congressman Aaron Schock made his first appearance on NBC's Meet the Press this Sunday, and the appearance didn't go exactly as pl...

Read Whole Story

Top Economists: Obama Stimulus Plan Has Been Partially Effective

USA Today | Paul Wiseman and Barbara Hansen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Economists Stimulus Survey, Economists Stimulus, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, President Obama, Ecconomists Stimulus Effect, Obama, Stimulus Plan, Stimulus, Politics News

President Obama's stimulus package saved jobs -- but the government still needs to do more to breathe life into the economy, according to USA TODAY's ...

Read Whole Story

Dean Baker: Job Sharing Could Ease Unemployment

The Atlantic Business Channel | Derek Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Obama Stimulus Plan, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Job Sharing, Jobs, Paul Krugman, Payroll, Recession, Dean Baker, Business News

Paul Krugman today solidifies his membership in the Job Squad, that growing contingent of bloggers and policy mavens calling for a new stimulus direct...

Read Whole Story

White House: 650,000 Jobs In New Stimulus Report

AP | MATT APUZZO and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: White House, U.S. Economy, Stimulus Spending, Economy, President Obama, Economic Crisis, Jobs, White House Stimulus, Stimulus, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Financial Crisis, Economic Recovery, Stimulus Report, Business News

WASHINGTON — Nearly 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the government said Friday, a...

Read Whole Story

Eliot Spitzer: Obama Economic Policies Ineffective, A Continuation Of Bush

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Intelligence-Squared, Obama Stimulus Plan, Mark Zandi, Economic Stimulus Package, Allan Meltzer, James Galbraith, Steve Rattner, Financial Crisis, Obama Economy, Lawrence Mishel, Eliot Spitzer, Video, Business News

Are Obama's economic policies actually working? Intelligence Squared posed this question to six policy experts at a debate in New York this week. ...

Read Whole Story

Why We Need Even More Stimulus

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Unemployed, Obama Stimulus Plan, National Debt, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Federal Budget Deficit, Unemployment Rate, Stimulus Package, Stimulus, Business News

Obama must return to Congress for more stimulus spending. Here's how he should sell it.

Read Post

Fred Schulte, Senior Reporter For HuffPost Investigative Fund, Talks Digitizing Medical Records On NPR (AUDIO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Medical Records, Npr, Obama Stimulus Plan, Fret Schulte, Scott Simon, Video, Media News

Fred Schulte, a senior reporter for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, talked with NPR's Scott Simon Saturday morning about the overlooked techno...

Read Whole Story

Finally, Good News on Climate! US Carbon Emissions Drop

Patrick McCully | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Peak Carbon, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Offsets, Peak Oil, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate Change, Natural Gas, International Rivers, Global Warming, Cap and Trade, Green News

The drop in emissions means that we are already more than halfway to the goal of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House of Representatives of a 17% cut from 2005 to 2020.

Read Post