Friday, October 2, 2009

WBFO: Stimulus can't ease job pain for U.S. states and cities (2009-10-02)


WBFO: Stimulus can't ease job pain for U.S. states and cities (2009-10-02):

"Even after receiving billions of dollars of stimulus funds, state governments lost 10,000 jobs -- all in education -- and the trend may get worse in coming months.

'I don't believe that states have bottomed out yet,' said Raymond Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association. 'This fiscal year 2010 will be the worst year.'"