Word: moneys
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...behind a desk on the second floor of a three-story brick building located on a busy boulevard filled with those who measure the future by a wristwatch. She is surrounded by the heartache of those who show up grappling with the oldest of maladies: no money. The work helps push her own sadness, etched permanently in her eyes, off the screen for a few hours each...
...broad strokes, Obama set out a framework for using more federal money to create jobs. In addition to the infrastructure piece, which aides said could cost as much as $50 billion, Obama proposed new incentives for consumers who retrofit their homes (a program some have already dubbed Cash for Caulkers), an elimination of the capital-gains tax for small businesses and extensions of several other programs from the last stimulus to help small businesses. He also said he would instruct the Treasury Department to use funds that have already been appropriated to increase the flow of credit to small businesses...
...Treasury, where its proceeds would be used to pay down the deficit. "The $700 billion program we have proposed is not a spending program," former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson explained before Congress in September 2008. It didn't take long for Republicans to take that position. "The stimulus money clearly was a spending bill. TARP was a loan - a loan to be paid back. And we know that a number of the banks are, in fact, paying it back," said McConnell...
...Dwarika, a village in Jharkhand where no classes have been taught since a can bomb explosion severely damaged the building in November 2008. The wooden doors were shattered, and the walls cracked, making the brick building unsafe for students. Of the 250 students, only 50 had families with enough money to send them to the next village. "We are poor people," said one father in Dwarika, whose children stay home, grazing cattle. "Those who are not able, how can they send...
Apart from this nexus of Ugandan conservatism and exported ideology from America's culture war, the other underlying presence was Western money. The U.S. President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, gave $285 million to HIV and AIDS programs in Uganda. Among the recipients was Ssempa's Campus Alliance to Wipe Out AIDS, which runs abstinence programs. The Campus Alliance is a subpartner of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, which got $15 million from PEPFAR. Meanwhile, Langa's Family Life Network has received money from the U.N.-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...