Tag: ECONOMICSTIMULUS

The Cash for Clunkers program drove Americans to go out and buy cars en masse. But cars aren't the only aging and inefficient products that people tend to retain long past their expiration dates. Appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines are often kept until they become a pile of replacement parts, jury-rigged to function only if you know the secret. ("You have to duct tape this switch ...

Fermilab, perhaps the premier research facility in the United States, peers into "the fundamental nature of matter and energy" in order to answer the most elemental questions surrounding the composition of the universe. Over the decades, the lab has played an integral role in the birth of the Internet and can even lay claim to the second Web site in the U.S. While the lab lost $50 million in ...

Computing giant Microsoft has found itself at the center of a controversy surrounding the spending of federal stimulus money. Washington governor, Chris Gregoire, OK'd $11 million of stimulus money for a bridge in the town of Redmond that would connect two Microsoft campuses across a six-lane highway. Redmond Mayor John Marchione applied for the stimulus funds after the cost of the project ...

Last night, President Barack Obama took to the Capitol to shed some light on the massive, $800 billion stimulus bill he just signed into law. As you might expect, his not-quite-State-of-the-Union address dealt in part with technology and science, which the president believes are essential to restoring the United States' economy and securing our place in the global marketplace. We know that some ...