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02 Jul 2010 10:30

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Tech: One way to stimulate the economy: Broadband infrastructure build-out

  • $800 million in loans and grants for broadband jobs source

01 Mar 2010 21:21

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U.S.: Obama’s willing to help your school as long as it doesn’t suck

  • $900 million the size of the grants Obama wants to offer to schools
  • no
    losers
    the prevailing rule around which schools get the grants source

05 Aug 2009 10:31

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Biz, U.S.: Obama’s looking to build incentive for electric cars in the rust belt

  • $2.4 billion amount of money Obama plans to grant to various companies to push electric vehicle manufacturing
  • eleven grants to make electric vehicles are going to recession-stricken Michigan; seven more are going to Indiana source