Economy

March 1, 2010 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Critics of the $787 billion Recovery Act complain it is not doingenough to revive the economy, but they rarely ask why the companiesthat are receiving stimulus contracts and grants are not hiring morepeople. Now one of those recipients is facing a growing controversyover its employment practices in a case that helps explain why jobsremain in short supply.

February 25, 2010 -

February 24, 2010 - The Obama administration reached a historic settlement last week in a lawsuit claiming decades of racial discrimination against African-American farmers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

February 23, 2010 -

February 23, 2010 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest A war of words is raging over the impact of the Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus program, which is now one yearold. Conservative members of Congress are mounting a relentless assaulton what they see as an abject failure, even as many of them unabashedlypromote and at least implicitly take credit for individual American

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