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December 9, 2011
Report: Food Stamps Boost Economy
About one third of the people who can get food stamps do not, meaning many U.S. states have lost out on a steady source of cash, Bloomberg reports. According to the news service, people on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, spend about $64 billion per year.
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May 13, 2010
Morning Links: New York City's Homeland Security Cuts; Strippers Want a Pole Tax; New Baby Falcons!
• President Obama is in New York today, the day after the Department of Homeland Security cut funding to prevent terrorism in New York. (The final DHS budget decision for the year gives the New York City area $111 million for transit security -- a 27% cut from last year's funding of $153 mi ... More >>
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November 2, 2009
Paterson Releases Delicious Stimulus $ Report: NYC Gets $8.16 Billion
Governor Paterson released a report today showing where the $18 billion that New York State got in stimulus money is going. You'll be pleased to hear that the counties comprising New York City receive by far the most American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds -- $8.16 billion. Hooray! Secon ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
White House Says ARRA Saved 4,000 Education Jobs in City; Post Reveals Fraud -- It Saved More
The White House claims, based on findings in advance of an expected October 30 reports, that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is "Saving and Hiring 250,000 Teachers" -- referring both to new jobs and jobs that would have gone away otherwise. The Director of the White House Domestic Policy ... More >>
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May 27, 2009
Paterson Requires Stimulus Jobs to Be Added to State Job Bank
We like to be snide, but this actually seems like a good idea: Governor Paterson is requiring that every firm that gets federal stimulus money from the state to create those "shovel-ready" jobs we've been hearing about to post those jobs at the state Job Bank -- a resource to which unemployed citize ... More >>
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May 22, 2009
Plan to Charge Homeless Rent for Shelters Withdrawn, for Now
Remember that new city policy of charging the homeless rent for shelters? It's been reversed, at least temporarily. Homeless advocates were going ballistic, and the Times says the program was administrated haphazardly, with erroneous charges sent to some working homeless who were deemed sufficiently ... More >>
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March 9, 2009
Financial Aid Update: Mostly, More Money for Students
The stimulus bill President Obama signed into law last month has many ambitious goals, such as putting millions of Americans to work and saving the economy. One thing Obama accomplished immediately, though, was to render swaths of a story (written by me) in the Voice's January 20 Education Supplemen ... More >>

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Blogs

Report: Food Stamps Boost Economy

Blogs

Morning Links: New York City's Homeland Security Cuts; Strippers Want a Pole Tax; New Baby Falcons!

Blogs

Paterson Releases Delicious Stimulus $ Report: NYC Gets $8.16 Billion

Blogs

White House Says ARRA Saved 4,000 Education Jobs in City; Post Reveals Fraud -- It Saved More

Blogs

Paterson Requires Stimulus Jobs to Be Added to State Job Bank

Blogs

Plan to Charge Homeless Rent for Shelters Withdrawn, for Now

Blogs

Financial Aid Update: Mostly, More Money for Students

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