economic stimulus

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold off Wednesday from further economic stimulus while voicing a familiar refrain: "We're ready to take action if and when necessary."

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to meet later Wednesday with the press to discuss the Fed's outlook for future growth and what direction the Fed might take.

The Fed concludes its two-day meeting around noon, will unveil its statement from the meeting at 12:30 p.m.

ET and will issue fresh economic forecasts at 2 p.m.

Shoppers won't shop. Companies won't hire. The government won't spend on economic stimulus — it's cutting instead.

And the Federal Reserve is reluctant to do anything more.

The Obama administration claimed this week that $100 billion invested in innovative technologies under the economic stimulus law is "transforming the American economy" by putting the nation on track for technological breakthroughs in health care, energy and transportation.

The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless.

President Barack Obama hailed Wednesday's one-year-old economic stimulus law as an accomplishment that staved off another Great Depression and kept up to 2 million people on the job.

(The Science Coalition) On the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- the economic stimulus -- the nation's research universities today provided nearly 100 examples of how a relatively small element of the measure is paying outsize short- and long-term dividends for the nation.

Of the $787 billion contained in the ARRA, $21.5 billion is allocated for research and science infrastructure.

The government is telling us that the economic stimulus is working and the recession is over. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the unemployment numbers.

The different speeds with which economies are withdrawing economic-stimulus programs spell more uncertainty for the global economy

(Indiana University) Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have received more than $12 million in grants funded by the federal economic stimulus legislation, funding that has bolstered both research initiatives and research employment on the medical center campus.

Pulte Homes Inc. lobbied on taxes and issues related to the economic stimulus in the second quarter, according to recent disclosure reports.