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...viewed this method of funding as “fragmented.” “It’s like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, but we don’t know what the end looks like,” Wolf said. In December, Patrick established 10 task forces to prepare Massachusetts for the receipt of stimulus funding from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Signed into law in February, the bill is designed to jump-start the economy and create or save jobs. “The stimulus package will help enormously,” said...
...loan guarantees for green industries. "At a time when good jobs and good wages are harder and harder to come by. it is critical we find new and innovative work opportunities for middle class families," Vice President Joseph Biden said at the launch of the White House's Task Force on Middle Class Families on Feb. 27. "That's why we're here today - to learn and listen about how investing in green jobs can help build a strong middle class...
...ownership. The others seem a long way off from a similar outcome, if at all. Critics of nationalization say taking over and resolving the issues at a bank like Citigroup, which has hundreds of thousands of employees and businesses spread around the world, would be a much more difficult task than turning around IndyMac, which is a relatively small bank concentrated in the mortgage business...
...confirmed, Fugate will take over a 4,400-worker agency charged with the daunting task of rescuing America from man-made and natural disasters, as well as nuclear attack. Luckily, Fugate, 49, has plenty of emergency experience, having served as the go-to guy when Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Ivan battered Florida's coast in 2004, followed by Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005 - not to mention the various droughts, tornadoes, wildfires and tropical storms that have visited the state during his nearly 15-year tenure as assistant director and then director of the Florida Division...
...sheer enormity of the task has been clear for months. But it was on sometimes painful display at the two breakout sessions to discuss healthcare that Obama has already organized at the White House. The first session, which occurred in late February in the Indian Treaty Room, had a somewhat comical cast to it. Dozens of powerful people sat around a square table in one of the most gaudy and expensive marble rooms ever built by the U.S. government. The task: Figure out how to save money on health spending. The solution, according to almost every person present: Spend more...