The Recovery Act invested millions in new projects that are improving our infrastructue, repairing homes, and much more. But it also provided millions in direct benefits for families, students, businesses, investors, and more including more than $288 million in various forms of tax relief. Guidance on how to access each of those benefits is below.
Submitted by Center for Publ... on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 20:47
Nearly one year to the day after SB 1569, a bill that would have modernized Texas' unemployment insurance system to qualify the state for $555 million in ARRA incentive payments, died on the House floor, the business community has largely stuck to its position. Many panel members needed to be reminded that the Senate passed the bill 19-11, and the bill was not defeated by the Legislature, bur rather got ensnarled in a toxic brew of voter ID, computer malfunctions, and Top Ten reform.
On May 19, the House Joint Hearing of the Technology, Economic Development, and Workforce and Business & Industry met to consider how to make the UI system work better for employers and jobless Texans. Rick Levy of the Texas AFL-CIO and Don Baylor of the Center for Public Policy Priorities provided written and oral testimony arguing for Texas to enact UI reforms to qualify for ARRA incentive funding during the 82nd Legislature.
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