The president's Council of Economic Advisers has just released its first quarterly report to Congress on the impact of the $787 billion stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The report is filled with the...
The claim: "Our state unemployment rate is already higher than any of our neighboring states -- Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas," Hutchison's campaign Web site says. "So much for Texas being better off than anywhere else." The facts: At...
The claim: Perry rejected $555 million in federal money for unemployment benefits because the expansion "would have mandated the state of Texas to pay costlier benefits and put higher taxes on Texas employers indefinitely," Perry wrote in an Austin American-Statesman...
Kay Bailey Hutchison said Rick Perry is making a mistake turning down $555 million in federal unemployment money from the stimulus package. She says a real leader would have done more than just reject the money. She says there's a...
Gov. Rick Perry has turned down some $500 million in federal unemployment aid that's part of the Obama administration's financial stimulus package. He says it would require Texas to expand its jobless program to allow more people to qualify for...
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford yesterday became the first governor to reject some of his state's share of President Obama's economic-stimulus money. He turned down $700 million that the Republican governor said would harm his state's residents in the long...
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