Category Archives: Stimulus

YouthBuild Receives Grant, Hope

July 1, 2009 – 2:17 pm

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a nearly $700,000 grant to YouthBuild Louisville, an organization that aids unemployed, undereducated and generally disadvantaged teens and twenty-somethings in the River City.
The grant will allow the organization, which provides job training and high school education to disadvantaged 16- to 24-year-olds, to operate for another two years.
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Stimulus Grants $4,600 to Recessionary-Challenged

May 8, 2009 – 3:26 pm

Despite the rain, here’s some good news for the Commonwealth: $3 million in Federal stimulus funds will be disbursed to the recipient’s school of choice in an effort to re-educate Kentucky’s legions of laid-off workers. Via WAVE-3.com:

“Today’s workers will account for two-thirds of the work force in 2020. Yesterday’s skills will not suffice in tomorrow’s [...]

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Beshear on working and stuff

April 3, 2009 – 3:18 pm

Curious about how Kentucky will be spending its share of federal stimulus funds? Go here. But first, here’s Gov. Beshear gabbing about it:

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Coming Soon to A Public Works Project Near You

March 3, 2009 – 7:53 pm

In order to raise visibility of the stimulus’ impact, President Obama today unveiled an emblem (pictured at left) that will adorn each and every highway expansion, bridge paint job, and bus stop that is under construction and paid for by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.
No word yet on weather T-shirts or other apparel are [...]

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