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Article: WASTEFUL, UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED STIMULUS SPENDING
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 17, 2009
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ALBANY, N.Y., June 5 -- New York State Sen. John A. DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse (50th District), issued the following news release:
Federal stimulus aid is supposed to be used to jumpstart our sluggish economy and get Americans back to work. Instead, we have seen how stimulus dollars are being wasted and allocated unfairly. That is why we need better accounting of how Albany is using federal stimulus aid to help revitalize our state's economy.
Last week, news reports revealed that $120,000 of federal stimulus money is being used to fund a project to reprint 20-year-old pamphlets -without creating a single job. The brochure, first created in 1989, touts Onondaga Lake. While Onondaga Lake is a ...