Continuing on the Recovery Summer and Stimulus: State by State , we head to Tennessee. Quick Tennessee facts: In January of 2009, the unemployment rate in Tennessee was 9.1%. As of July 31, 2010, the unemployment rate was 9.7% (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics ) According to Recovery.gov, Tennessee has received 5,170 awards. This has resulted […]
Continuing on the Recovery Summer and Stimulus: State by State , we head to Maine. Quick Maine facts: In January of 2009, the unemployment rate in Maine was 7.3%. As of July 31, 2010, the unemployment rate was 8.1% (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics ) According to Recovery.gov, Maine has received only 1,902 awards. This has […]
Continuing on Americans for Limited Government’s series investigating the effects that the “Summer of Recovery” and the “Stimulus” had on the states we covered Montana , Oklahoma , Idaho , Rhode Island and Utah over the past week. With news this week that the recession ended in 2009, it is hard […]
By Howard Rich – There may be no such thing as a silver bullet in public policy, but universal parental choice is the closest thing we have to one — assuming our politicians summon the courage to run with it. And based on the current […]
Continuing on the Recovery Summer and Stimulus: State by State , we head to Utah. Quick Utah facts: In January of 2009, the unemployment rate in Utah was 5.6%. As of July 31, 2010, the unemployment rate was 7.2% (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics ) According to Recovery.gov, Utah has received only 2,081 awards. This has […]