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 […]

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 […]

Continuing on the Recovery Summer and Stimulus: State by State , we head to Rhode Island. Quick Rhode Island facts: In January of 2009, the unemployment rate in Rhode Island was 9.6%. As of July 31, 2010, the unemployment rate was 11.9%–a net increase of over 2%! (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics ) According to Recovery.gov, […]

“There are no American soldiers in Baghdad,” Iraq’s Information Minister famously proclaimed on then Iraqi state-run media, even as U.S. forces were descending into the capital city after Operation Iraqi Freedom began in March 2003. It was one of the last broadcasts of a dying […]

Continuing on the Recovery Summer and Stimulus: State by State , we head to Oklahoma. Quick Oklahoma facts: In January of 2009, the unemployment rate in Oklahoma was 5.0%. As of July 31, 2010, the unemployment rate was 6.9%–a net increase of almost 2%! (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics ) According to Recovery.gov, Oklahoma has received […]

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Continuing on the Recovery Summer and Stimulus: State by State , we head to Idaho. Quick Idaho facts: In January of 2009, the unemployment rate in Idaho was 6.7%. As of July 31, 2010, the unemployment rate was 8.8%–a net increase of 2.1%! (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics ) According to Recovery.gov, Idaho has received 1,778 […]

By Kevin Mooney — A California ballot initiative that could potentially unravel the anti energy policies Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law four years ago is the subject of a report aimed against free market groups. Charles and David Koch described here as the “billionaires from […]

Continuing on our series to investigate how the “Summer of Recovery” and the “stimulus” affected the economies of all 50 states, we covered Oregon , Maryland , Kentucky , Arizona and Virginia over the past week. As we have been finding all along, any signs of a “recovery” are yet to […]