Article: Grassroots Community Leaders Discuss Impacts of Federal Stimulus Package After Organizing Country's First Community-Level Trainings on Newly-Released Jobs Data.

The New York Stimulus Alliance, a coalition of grassroots organizations and their policy and research partners, today offered their response to the first major release of jobs data about the federal stimulus act. In an unprecedented statewide organizing collaboration, they held simultaneous two-hour training sessions with a subset of the groups' grassroots members in four locations throughout New York State - in New York City, Newburgh, Buffalo, and Albany. Partners in Syracuse will host a similar event in the coming week.

In the workshops, information was shared about how best to track stimulus monies and testimony was solicited from economically marginalized ...

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