Tallying Stimulus Jobs Is Not Easy in New York
Will President Obama’s program bring 30,000 jobs to the city? Or is that estimate, as one official says, “puffery?”
Will President Obama’s program bring 30,000 jobs to the city? Or is that estimate, as one official says, “puffery?”
The board of the F.D.I.C. moved to relax some proposed rules while still imposing tough standards on private equity firms seeking to buy troubled financial institutions.
The challenges posed by corruption in Afghanistan are revealed in President Hamid Karzai’s running mate.
For more than a decade, he was New York’s mightiest labor leader. Now he has emerged as a central player in the effort to save President Obama’s health care effort.
The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to prison inmates.
A survey undercut anecdotal reports that volunteers had flooded nonprofit groups as unemployment had increased in the current recession.
In the hours after Kennedy’s passing, POLITICO caught up with some folks who knew Kennedy well.
The death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy became a rallying point for advocates of health care reform and could provide a new tone in the debate.
From the time his brain cancer was diagnosed 15 months ago, Senator Kennedy spoke of having a “good ending for myself.”