The United States must commit to developing a domestic manufacturing sector capable of meeting heightened demand for the parts, systems and components of the growing clean energy economy, a strategy that is key to ensuring that federal clean energy investments create quality, high-paying jobs in the United States. This would avoid indirectly subsidizing the growth of those activities in low-wage countries such as China that are emerging as key competitors in the race to lead the global clean energy economy.More...
Some states are making dramatic improvements in websites designed to disseminate information about their share of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), but others are still failing to make effective use of online technology to educate taxpayers about the impact of economic stimulus spending.
This is the finding of Show Us the Stimulus (Again), a report released today by Good Jobs First, a non-profit research center based in Washington, DC. It updates a similar study published by Good Jobs First last July.More...
The Rockefeller Institute's quarterly analysis of state revenues finds that the first quarter of 2009 showed the sharpest decline in at least 46 years - "the worst on record for the states."
Overall, compares to the same period of 2008, state revenues fell 11.7 percent including personal income tax decline of 17.5 percent, sales tax down 8.5 percent and corporate income tax down 18.8 percent.More...
In a perversion of President Obama’s intentions, there are troubling signs that the “economic war among the states” is threatening to fritter away the stimulus act.More...
