Biden: Social Security payments begin in May
Source: MSNBC
People who collect Social Security or disability benefits will share $13 billion in federal money, each receiving a one-time, $250 payment beginning in May, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday.
N.Y. election seen as referendum on stimulus
Source: MSNBC
Democrats and Republicans plan to use the results as a measure of the popularity of President Barack Obama's economic efforts; the outcome could also indicate the strength of the GOP.
Obama 'stunned' by millions in AIG bonuses
Source: MSNBC
Barack Obama said Thursday that he was "stunned" to hear about bonuses that were paid to employees of troubled insurer AIG, saying in an unprecedented interview on NBC's "Tonight Show" that the payments raised serious moral and ethical problems.
Calif. gov. to help Obama answer GOP critics
Source: MSNBC
Arnold Schwarzeneggeris next on the list of GOP notables to embrace the president's hard-fought stimulus plan and will join Obama at a town hall meeting tonight in Los Angeles.
President Obama, is often compared to the late great Democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who history books have romanticized as being the one responsible for guiding the country through the Great Depression of the 1930's.
Top Dems adjust to life in Obama's shadow
Source: MSNBC
Such is life for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid these days as they adapt to new roles that increase their ability to enact legislation while reducing their powers to direct the Democratic Party.
A Progressive Approach to the Deficit.
Source: The Huffington Post
With the event at the White House today, and the outlines of Obama's budget about to be delivered to Capitol Hill, the federal budget deficit is in the news this week.
GOP to leap on spending abuses in stimulus
Source: MSNBC
Republicans are preparing to pounce on any wasteful spending in the $787 billion stimulus package. The measure's success could hurt their 2010 election prospects.
Democrats strike different tone on Katrina
Source: MSNBC
Democrats who routinely criticized President George W. Bush for not sending more money to the Gulf Coast appear to be giving President Obama the benefit of the doubt in his first major spending initiative
GOP govs consider rejecting stimulus money
Source: MSNBC
Several Republican governors may turn down some funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment act package, a move opponents say puts conservative ideology ahead of constituents' needs.
Cheering for Obama Stimulus Buys Into 1930s Myth
Source: Bloomberg.com
Bureau of Labor Statistics data show joblessness in the 1930s bumping around in the teens and moving back up toward 20 percent later that decade -- years after the New Dealers first spoke of "bold, persistent experimentation." These numbers include long-term public-sector job …
With the Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, the politicians in Washington, D.C., can now spend money faster than a drunken sailor who just received his "payday loan." The President's "Stimulus" plan reminds me of a "payday" loan.
Chu to move quickly on stimulus
Source: MSNBC
The Energy secretary said he's ready to push out some of the billions from the economic recovery plan within a couple of months for renewable energy projects and conservation programs.
Stimulus highlights stakes of Minn. recount
Source: MSNBC
Neither side is giving an inch in Minnesota's protracted Senate election fight, and the tiny margin used to secure the newly passed economic stimulus package is a vivid reminder of why.
Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
Source: FOXNews.com
As the article so clearly displays, giving people back more of their "own" money, so that "they" (not the bureaucrats) can stimulate the economy, works. In fact, it's the only method guaranteed to work, as John F.
White House Dampens Stimulus Expectations
Source: Reuters
President Barack Obama's aides warned Americans on Sunday not to expect instant miracles from the $787 billion economic stimulus bill he will sign this week, but said it would help eventually.
The Republican Calculus on Obama's Economic Plan.
Source: The Huffington Post
This "finding our voice" stuff is all well and good for a few true believers among fiscal conservatives, but the political calculus motivating most of the Republican party is--yet again--deeply cynical.
Lawmakers may get an earful from constituents on stimulus
Source: dcexaminer.com
For people like Hal Collins, a Troy, Ohio, pizza shop manager, a stimulus bill sounds like a good idea, just not the one Congress passed. "For $13 a week?" Collins, 57, asked, referring to estimates of how much more take-home pay the average taxpayer would receive with the s …
GOP Dogma Clouds Recovery Act Debate.
Source: The Huffington Post
Watching the House Republicans debate the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is like watching outtakes from the Twilight Zone. Here is a short list of some bizzarro ideas the Republican Party is repeating in defiance of pragmatism, not to mention the laws of physics.