public works jobs

• Work in progress: Barack Obama aims to boost the economy with public-works jobs, infrastructure spending and investments in education and energy. Will Colorado fare as well as it did under FDR?

As he begins his presidency, Barack Obama faces the bleakest economic landscape since the country entrusted Franklin Delano Roosevelt to rebuild the n...

• ColoradoBiz
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 2, February 2009

• Worcester slashes jobs; Public Works, Parks take biggest hits.

Byline: Nick Kotsopoulos WORCESTER - The budgetary sword of Damocles that had been precariously hanging over City Hall has finally fallen, taking 30...

• Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Tip to Subcontractors - Protect Rights On Public Works Jobs

Public works projects can present unique problems to subcontractors. It's a big reason why subcontractors always should file preliminary notices on pu...

• Public Record, The
• July 27, 2009

• Public Works Budget Faces $3m in Cuts ; Department May Need to Eliminate Jobs, Raise Rates.

DAYTON -- Efforts to cut nearly $3 million from the public works department's budget would include eliminating jobs, changing its leaf pickup policy and hiking quarterly trash collection rates. These were among the suggestions included in a proposal submitted by Fred Stovall, director of public works, to city commissioners during a Saturday, Dec. 12, budget hearing.

• Dayton Daily News
• December 14, 2009

• U.S. Giving City $22.6 Million Stimulus Package Provides Money for Jobs, Housing, Public Works, Barrett Says

The City of Milwaukee will get $22.6 million from the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help with jobs, housing and public works projects, Mayor Tom Barrett announced Wednesday. The money comes from President Barack Obama's unprecedented stimulus package to help restart the ailing economy. Obama signed the legislation into law last week.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• February 26, 2009

• Public Works: Investigator Offers a Look Into Csi Jobs in Real World

Forget the glitz and glam, forget the Hummer and the crime-scene investigator packing heat and wearing high heels as she sifts through evidence at the scene. That's CSI.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• June 08, 2009

• Radio Address: ; Obama Maps Recovery Plan; Public Works Program to Help Jobs, Roads, Schools

ONLINE Obama transition: www.change.gov Interstate Highway System: www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/ history.htm CHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama said Saturday he wants to revive the economy through a job-creating public works plan on a scale unseen since the building program of the interstate highway system in the 1950s.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• December 09, 2008

• County Weighs Efficiencies It May Combine Some Jobs Between Public Works and Parks Departments

Waukesha -- Does county government need snow plowers employed by more than one department? Do departments need separate sign-making capabilities?

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• May 02, 2009

• Menendez Calls for Middle-Class Bailout ; Says Public Works Projects Would Create Jobs

The middle class needs a financial bailout as much as Wall Street titans, a group of Democratic senators, including New Jersey's Bob Menendez, said Wednesday. Menendez said Congress is still deciding what will be included in an economic stimulus package it probably will take up later this month, but said he would argue it should include funding for public works projects that are ready to go and are just waiting for funding.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• September 18, 2008

• Around the State

Plan to privatize jobs at academy is scrapped WEST POINT (AP) -- The U.S. Army is scuttling plans to privatize more than 300 public works jobs at West Point.

• Buffalo News
• October 27, 2009