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11/17/08 Washington Business Journal Barack Obama and the business community can expect to have a happy honeymoon as long as the president-elect's focus is on economic recovery. Tax increases and union-friendly legislation may cause major rifts down the road, but for now, business groups and Obama share the same priorities: quick passage of an economic stimulus bill and immediate aid to struggling auto makers.
11/13/08 San Jose Mercury News Construction of the county's largest solar project began Wednesday as crews lifted the first of 1,800 solar panels to the top of Soquel High School, where 40 percent of the campus' electricity will be generated by the sun.
11/13/08 Reuters Efforts to reform the U.S. healthcare system got a big boost on Wednesday as a powerful Democratic senator unveiled a plan similar to President-elect Barack Obama's and an analysis said the financial crisis could accelerate any efforts, not hinder them.
11/11/2008 USA Today When China's President Hu Jintao attends the economic summit in Washington on Saturday, the rest of the world may have its hand out. But other countries shouldn't expect a bailout, despite China's new $586 billion spending package heralded as China's "New Deal" or its record-breaking $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves.
11/4/2008 LIUNA CNN's political panel says the first thing President-elect Barack Obama should do is start rebuilding infrastructure.
11/4/2008 LIUNA As the polls close on election night, LIUNA will already be shifting its focus to promoting a build America agenda for the next President and Congress. LIUNA will run its television ad “Build” during election night coverage on CNN and MSNBC in Washington, DC and Chicago. The ad issues a call to “fix our roads and bridges, and build the new rail and renewable energy we need” and urges viewers to tell Congress and the new President to "build America so America works."
11/4/2008 LIUNA We congratulate President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joe Biden on their historic election and welcome stronger pro-working family majorities in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Tonight marks the birth of a new coalition. This was a transformative election that reversed the trajectory of American politics and set the course for a new, progressive era in our country. Americans voted for change and sent Barack Obama, Joe Biden and a new Congress to Washington with a mandate to fight for working people and make their lives better by creating good jobs, passing affordable healthcare for all, securing retirement and eliminating the barriers that make it difficult for employees to join together in a union.
10/29/08 LIUNA In testimony today before the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Laborers’ International Union of North America will call for a $100 billion investment to stimulate our economy by building our nation’s transportation, energy and education structures that we depend on every day, but which have fallen into disrepair due to years of neglect.
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10/23/08 Boston.com The $600 rebate checks the federal government sent out earlier this year may have been popular among taxpayers, but many economists say any future economic stimulus effort should focus on infrastructure spending and other targeted measures.
Spending on roads, bridges, and other public works projects would create jobs and provide more of a lasting boost to the economy than another round of rebate, several economists said.
10/22/02 Research Minnesota Minnesota’s roads and bridges could see major improvement as a result of the new economic stimulus effort now brewing in Washington.
Federal lawmakers are laying the groundwork for a new transportation-heavy stimulus plan, which will be the focus of a Wednesday hearing of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the nation’s capital.
