thegspot.typepad.com - 1/8/2009
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By Kathy G.A number of feminists have expressed concern that President-Elect Obama's proposed stimulus package will be of limited help to women because it will disproportionately create jobs in male-dominated industries like construction, while largely ignoring more female-friendly professions ...
usmayors.org - 1/15/2009
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usmayors.org —
MainStreet Economic Recovery Survey Return to Participating Cities
City State Program Project Description Funding Required Jobs Duluth
MN Airport DYT fuel and security upgrades 125,000 15 Duluth MN Airport DYT apron reconstruction 650,000 20 Duluth MN ...
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Main Street Stimulus: Stimulus in the News
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One thing the Senate probably won’t screw up
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... and the dissent has a tad more sarcasm and anger than she’s used to employing.
The good news is that technicalities like the one the Supreme Court used can easily be addressed by Congress. The Ledbetter Act clarifies that the window to file a suit begins after the latest paycheck, not the first one, giving a woman time to find out that she’s being discriminated against in the first place.
In other economic news for women, I found from Kathy G pointed my attention to this petition to the Obama administration, ...
Friday Blogaround
Shakesville —
... | posted by Melissa McEwan | Friday, January 09, 2009 Would you like some pathetic anger bread with your blogaround? Recommended Reading: Kathy G: In Support of a Feminist Stimulus The Black Scientist: ...
Weekly Feminist Reader
Feministing —
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The Well-Timed Period: Increase in U.S. Teen birth Rate Due to Failure of Contraceptive-Focused Sex Ed
Questioning Transphobia: The Pope and teh trans
Womanist Musings: Sex Slavery
Dodson and Ross: At Birth, No Difference Between Male & Female Brains
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BBC: Pakistan girl band creates a stir
The G Spot: In support of a feminist stimulus
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After the stimulus
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 11/19/2008 — For the coming year, and probably well beyond, the economy will be on life support - sustained by massive fiscal stimulus. (Either that, or we'll be in a very deep slump.) But eventually the economy will have to come off life support. What will take ...
Will a stimulus be enough?
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Paul is correct in arguing for a large stimulus . I can't help wondering, though, if we'll need something more. Keynesianism is based on two highly-questionable assumptions in today's world. The first is that American consumers will eventually ...
Stimulus-Response
righteousrantings.blogspot.com 1/30/2009 — A reaction to the passing of the Stimulus Bill.
House Stimulus Bill
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/16/2009 — Here’s the summary circulating on the Hill . Whatever one thinks of this, keep in mind that the process of getting a bill through the Senate is all-but-certain to make things worse.
Stimulus speech
washingtonmonthly.com 1/9/2009 — STIMULUS SPEECH.... It's not especially common for presidents-elect to give major policy addresses two weeks before Inauguration Day, but watching Barack Obama's speech in northern Virginia this morning, we were reminded that these are not ordinary ...
Americans Support Stimulus, but Many Want Major Changes
gallup.com 2/3/2009 — PRINCETON, NJ -- A strong majority of Americans (75%) want Congress to pass some version of President Obama's economic stimulus plan, but this group is split down the middle on whether it should be passed as is or with major changes. fza Naturally, ...
Obama makes pitch for stimulus plan —
First Read 1/8/2009
From NBC's Athena Jones FAIRFAX, Va. -- With 12 days to go before he becomes president, Obama took to the stage here today to make a pitch for quick passage of his plan to jumpstart the economy through tax cuts, infrastructure investments, and ...
Obama health reform drive gets diverse backing —
Reuters: Politics 1/8/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's pledge to reform the U.S. health care system got an important vote of confidence on Thursday as a diverse alliance of doctors, a labor union, the drug industry and health insurers pledged to ...
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