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6/22/09 LIUNA Seattle, WA – Members of LIUNA – the Laborers' International Union of North America – will
weatherize a low-income Seattle woman’s home on Tuesday, June 30 as part of a demonstration of energy
efficiency work that could employ hundreds of local workers in the emerging weatherization industry
fueled by federal economic recovery investments.
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6/5/09 LIUNA Washington, D.C. – LIUNA – the Laborers International Union of North America - General President Terry O’Sullivan made the following statement on the Obama Administration’s acceleration of the economic recovery plan.
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6/5/09 LIUNA Washington, D.C.– The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly jobs report released today shows 59,000 construction jobs lost in the last month – a significant improvement from the average of 117,000 construction jobs lost in the previous six months. Currently, more than 1,768,000 construction workers are jobless and construction unemployment is at 19.2 percent. Since the start of 2007, 1,434,000 construction jobs have been lost.
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06/03/2009 Poughkeepsie Journal New York state is receiving a $26.7 billion piece of the stimulus from Washington.
That money is slowly working its way into the mid-Hudson Valley, making a few notable projects possible and paying for numerous routine road work projects. It's intended to create jobs, or at least save some, and revive a national economy in recession.
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06/03/2009 Reuters WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - Willie Fort is a lucky man. Last month he came within a whisker of losing his construction job, but now he is off to Louisiana to work on a highway project that will employ him for at least two years.
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06/01/2009 The Hill One of the biggest hurdles in passing a new $450 billion surface transportation bill this year will be finding a way to pay for it.
Revenue from the federal gas tax, the major funding source for the road and rail projects authorized by the transportation bill, is starting to flag as Americans drive less and turn to more fuel-efficient cars.
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05/27/2009 The Hill House Democrats are about to launch an ambitious effort to move a $450 billion highway bill to President Obama’s desk by the end of September.
The drive to complete work on the highway bill, a magnet in the past for charges of wasteful spending, comes just months after Congress’s approval of a $787 billion stimulus package that included billions in transportation projects.
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05/27/2009 Assoicated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the $4 billion from President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus plan that was budgeted to renovate public housing will be spent to create so-called "green jobs" by making the dwellings more energy efficient.
Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan was making the announcement Tuesday in Denver at a meeting of Obama's Middle Class Task Force.
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05/21/2009 Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abiding by a new policy of openness in seeking projects for their home districts, House members have requested $136.3 billion in earmarks in a highway and transit funding bill the House will take up this summer.
The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said that, as of late Wednesday, all 405 lawmakers asking for personal projects had posted those project requests on their office Web sites, as is now required under House rules aimed at making the earmarking process more open and less subject to abuse
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05/15/2009 Houston Busines Journal The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will inject some life into the lagging construction industry once large-scale infrastructure projects begin ramping up. In the meantime, the stimulus bill is helping some general contractors avoid layoffs.
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