Word: shovels
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...Ivinson said that he has held meetings with his investigators to come up with a strategy to apply for the new funding. He said that he and his colleagues have worked to identify “shovel-ready projects” that could be started immediately...
...announced on Friday that $437.9 million from President Obama’s stimulus package is targeted for state transportation projects. According to a press release on Patrick’s official Web site, approximately $153 million of that amount will be given to “shovel-ready” highway and transit projects advertised for bid within the next 120 days. Shovel-ready projects are those that already have all requisite approvals and permits in place. For Cantabrigians, this could mean a new $36 million pedestrian bridge from North Point Park in Cambridge to Paul Revere Park in Charlestown...
...Consider: almost half of China's $585 billion economic-stimulus program, announced last November to much fanfare, is earmarked for infrastructure spending on railroads, highways and power grids. Another 25% will go to reconstruct entire towns in Sichuan province that were devastated by last year's earthquake. These are "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects, and financial markets rallied on March 4 partly due to expectations - unfounded, as it turned out - that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would unveil a second round of stimulus measures on March 5 during the opening of China's annual National Party Congress in Beijing. (See pictures from...
...Contrast China's economic rescue effort with the stimulus package recently signed into law by President Barack Obama. In the U.S., despite all the talk about shovel-ready construction projects, only about $100 billion of the $787 billion in stimulus spending will go toward new infrastructure this year. Another $282 billion goes to tax cuts or rebates, much of which, as economist Nouriel Roubini argues, will most likely be saved, not spent. A big chunk of the rest of the package will go, via the states, toward social services: increased unemployment benefits, more money for food stamps and for health...
...Boylston with bronzes of Prestige and Mobility writers Vinnie and Danny. Although Our Queen Drew Faust may want to cut and run from Allston, our real president has urged us to stimulate the Obamaconomy and raise America’s GNH (Gross National Hope). We have an Obamananza of shovel-ready projects specifically for Allston that will address the real needs of Harvard undergraduates, as Prestige and Mobility have seen them since the Obamanauguration. Our Queen Drew Faust must heed the call of our Commander-in-Chief and take arms against custodial layoffs, Allston resident oppression, the lack of fresh...