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...highest since 1941, is rushing to funnel $415 million in federal stimulus money to 49 job-retraining centers. Most of the training will be designed to qualify people for jobs in infrastructure construction, health care and green industries like waste recycling and wind-farm technology. In Texas, legislators will vote next month on a final version of a 2010-11 budget, already passed by the state senate, that boosts spending on higher education by $1.5 billion. That figure includes $500 million in federal stimulus funding for workforce retraining and a $134 million state-funded increase in financial aid for students...
...reflected in the majority vote to close the meeting—and keep it closed—other Council members disagreed with Holoshitz...
...rise to a crescendo again if the bank receives poor "stress test" ratings from the federal government. The drumbeat of dissatisfaction about Ken Lewis, head of Bank of America (BAC), has gone on for months. Recently, proxy advisory RiskMetrics/ISS Governance Services recommended that the financial firm's shareholders vote Lewis...
...African countries) are now being reversed in the U.S. Whereas poor, suffering Americans need to be protected from the full consequences of their free-market principles (which should allow AIG, GM and the rest of them to fail), Africans were afforded no such protection - presumably because they don't vote in U.S. elections. Alex Potter, CLAREMONT, SOUTH AFRICA...
...these unanswered questions, the vote of confidence given to the IMF partly reflects its performance over the past few months under Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister who made an unsuccessful bid for the French presidency before being appointed to the job. Since the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, the IMF has lifted its game and put together rescue packages totaling more than $50 billion for Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Ukraine and other financially overstretched countries...