stimulus package

The Philippine president has announced a 72 billion peso ($1.66 billion) stimulus package to cushion the economy as Asian governments step up efforts to ward off the global fallout from Europe's debt crisis.

The state of Oregon is holding a series of informational meetings in 20 areas around the state to identify the barriers to bringing Internet resources to their community.

While obviously meetings are being held in urban locations such as Portland and the state capital of Salem, they are also being held in rural and remote locations such as John Day and Madras (with 5,078 residents, according to the 2000 census).

Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Senate's second-ranking Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, talks about the outlook for the mid-term congressional elections, the impact of the Obama administration's stimulus package on the economy, prospects for extension of the Bush-era tax cuts and the likelihood White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will run for mayor of ...

A $7.2 billion federal stimulus package will help extend high-speed access to more poor and rural sections of the United States.

Critics contend that the low prices of Build America Bonds and high bank fees cost taxpayers.

All of the applications for the second round of broadband stimulus funding have been posted -- sort of.

Applications for the second round of U.S. broadband stimulus funding are starting to become publicly available on a federal website.

Approximately 870 applications had been posted to the database as of Saturday, according to Stimulating Broadband, a website dedicated to tracking broadband stimulus funding.

Announcements for the first round of broadband stimulus grants and loans have slipped a bit; while all the announcements were supposed to be made by March 1, they are now expected to be made by March 15, according to an article on the Stimulating Broadband website.

Japan's government on Tuesday unveiled $81 billion of new stimulus spending to keep the world's second-biggest economy from lurching back into recession.

The New York Post editor fired after speaking out against a cartoon depicting the author of the president's stimulus package as a dead chimpanzee has sued the paper.

And as part of her complaint, Sandra Guzman levels some remarkable, embarrassing, and potentially damaging allegations.