Mike: Good day to all.  The stimulus bill is signed and you can keep track of how the billions are being spent at http://www.recovery.gov/ – –Housing Starts– Highlights Housing starts in January plunged again but the permits data—while worsening—were not as severe, suggesting that maybe some of the weakness was weather related. Starts continued to freefall […]

Continue reading about February 18 – Laid off? The government may pay 1/2 your mortgage! – To survive: GM to cut 47,000/Chryler 3000 – Goodyear dumps 5000 – Arnold sends layoff warnings to 20,000 – Transcontinental slashing 1,500 jobs – Ingram Micro Cuts 300 Jobs – Lodi CA schools cut 397 – Recovery.gov up and running – Obama signs $75 billion Homeowner Stability Initiative

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Continue reading about February 17 – Stimulus signed; what’s in it for jobs? – California near fiscal collapse and 20,000 lost jobs – Chrysler to slash 3000 more – Smithfield Foods to cut 1,800 jobs – Lennox drops 256 jobs – Gaylord exits 350 – Fossil watches 260 jobs go – ABX cuts 347 more jobs – Agilent drops 600

Mike: The news of today will be Obama signing the The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. I’ll post linksto the final versions of the bill and grab some lines form the legislation that are job related. Let’s see some of the highlights of this $800 billion dollar baby: *American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Summary: […]

Continue reading about February 17 – GM to cut 47,000 more jobs worldwide! – Stimulus signed; what’s in it for jobs? – California near fiscal collapse and 20,000 lost jobs – Chrysler to slash 3000 more – Smithfield Foods to cut 1,800 jobs – Lennox drops 256 jobs – Gaylord exits 350 – Fossil watches 260 jobs go – ABX cuts 347 more jobs – Agilent drops 600