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Wis. panel considers approving $20 M in stimulus

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 10:25 a.m.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — More than $20 million in federal stimulus projects are set for approval before the Legislature's budget committee.

The largest single item is $9.5 million for the second phase of a runway safety area project at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee.

Also up for approval at Tuesday's meeting of the Joint Finance Committee is $9.5 million to help administer unemployment insurance programs. That includes improving outreach to people who may be eligible and improving the response to applicants due to increased demand.

Another $390,000 would be used to hire three people to work on electricity-related initiatives funding by stimulus money and $350,000 will go toward industrial energy audits.

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toasty2k
Oct 13, 2009 at 4:01 p.m.
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Pete, Janesvillian needs to look up the meaning devaluation. Sure Printing money right now looks good and floods the economy with cash...for now. But what that person doesn't know is that at this rate our money will be worth nothing more than the paper we wipe out butts with. Just would have been simpler to cut taxes, give people back their money so they have more to spend. Works the same way, but without taking more money from the people while keeping the value of the dollar up. Wake up people because the bill will be due for all of this stimulus money and it isn't going to be pretty.

ezcargo
Oct 13, 2009 at 3:15 p.m.
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Pete--- Chill and enjoy the recovery

janesvillean
Oct 13, 2009 at 11:45 a.m.
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Those look like pretty substantial projects that will support economic development for the next 20 years from where I sit. This is precisely what the stimulus was intended for, long-term investment in the future.
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By the way, this money was already budgeted in the federal stimulus bill last spring and this is just spending what was given to the state.

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