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...million jobs forecast has always been a mysterious subject. The language used in the original House stimulus bill indicated that the programs in the legislation would create or save 3 to 4 million jobs. The "save" part is an important distinction. (Read "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis...
...bill will provide for aid to states, tax cuts for the "middle class", and money for building infrastructure. No one in the Congressional leadership has argued that this will not create 3.4 million or 3.6 million jobs. The staff members in the House and Senate must be certain about the 3.5 million figure because no one has made an effort to discredit...
...According to Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, his outfit is reaching out to administrators across schools to allay the possibility of job cuts...
...great new ideas that have been awaiting funding.” In 2007, Harvard received nearly $1.4 billion in funding from the NIH, and over half of the University’s external research funding came from the NIH. The House of Representatives, which approved a similar stimulus bill two weeks ago but only allocated $3.5 billion for biomedical research, will now work with the Senate to forge a compromise bill for President Obama’s approval. The Senate bill was approved along party lines, with all 37 opposition votes coming from Republicans. Economics and public policy professor Kenneth...
...Resigned from the National Constitutional Assembly in 1999 to found the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), with support from students, intellectuals, trade unionists and white commercial farmers. The following year, the MDC helped defeat a constitutional reform bill that would have extended Mugabe's rule and appropriated farms from white landowners - Mugabe's first electoral defeat. In the June 2000 parliamentary elections, the MDC won almost as many seats as Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, despite a series of attacks that left nearly 30 supporters dead...