Aug 17, 2011 ... Rick Perry likes to rail against the Obama administration's "failed" federal  stimulus program, but he and state lawmakers have more than $17 billion in ...  Through the second quarter of this year, Texas has used $17.4 billion in federal  stimulus money — including $8 billion of the one-time dollars to fund state ...
Oct 3, 2017 ... The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the  Food Stamp Program) is the nation's most important anti-hunger program. .... Not  all households receive the maximum benefit, and other parts of the benefit  calculation (including deductions discussed below) will rise next year ...
Mar 22, 2011 ... But since panhandlers often have no way to save their money, they're  incentivized to spend most of their day's earnings quickly. This creates a  tendency to spend ... Of the 13 who agreed to take part, 11 were off the street  within a year, and several entered treatment for addiction. The upshot: The  homeless ...
Jun 27, 2014 ... In February 2011, Snyder proposed a budget that called for a $961 million  reduction in school aid (see B70). But a couple caveats are in order. The  previous year's school aid included $520 million in federal stimulus aid, and that  money was no longer available. In addition, as the Detroit Free Press noted ...
Apr 17, 2011 ... States can't borrow money like the federal government, and stimulus dollars for  education makes good sense. But in a typical year (and even during the stimulus)  most education dollars flow from local communities into local schools. And as a  society, we still spend more on education than we do on defense ...
Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."