Posted by
Defend America on Monday, July 13, 2009 4:00:58 PM
Stimulus: Millions in grants, tons of scrutiny
By TOM FAHEY
State House Bureau Chief
15 hours, 6 minutes ago
CONCORD – More than $400 million in federal stimulus money has come to New Hampshire this year, and more is on the way.
The
Office of Legislative Budget Assistant reported last week that $413.6
million made its way to the state under a list of programs that involve
education, highways, environmental, health and human services, energy
and law enforcement.
So far, a
total of 50 jobs have been created by the funding, 34 of them
full time. The OES will be headed by a director whom Gov. John Lynch
has not yet appointed. All five OES jobs are described as full-time
temporary positions that will go out of existence in September 2011,
the end of the federal fiscal yea
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