Obama pushes jobs bill amid bipartisan debate
President Obama urged swift passage of a jobs plan while Republicans criticized its spending. The proposal includes 253 billion in tax cuts and 194 billion in new spending to fund highways, schools, and first responders. It aims to cut the Social Security tax to 3.1 percent in 2012 and would seek deficit offsets.
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Arizona
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House
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California
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Local family opens basement to Mosaic host home program
Missy Baier welcomed Cooper into her Garden City home as a Mosaic host, moving him from a group setting to a private basement space with care. Mosaic has run host homes in Kansas City for 15 years and is now expanding to Garden City with 24 hour provider support and background checks for applicants.
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Sunflower expands wind portfolio with Shooting Star project
Sunflower Electric Power Corp inks a wind deal adding the Shooting Star project to its Kansas system. The 178.25 MW Kansas wind resource joins 5.3 MW non Kansas output, lifting renewables toward 29 percent of retail peak by 2016. Sunflower serves six member cooperatives across central and western Kansas.
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Pioneer Electric Cooperative
Ulysses
Prairie Land Electric Cooperative
Norton
the Victory Electric Cooperative Association
Dodge City
Western Cooperative Electric Association
Wakkeeney
Wheatland Electric Cooperative
Scott City
Obama payroll tax cut would boost typical take home pay
President Obama proposes to extend and expand the payroll tax cut for 2012, boosting take home pay for a typical worker by about 1,500 dollars while offering larger cuts for higher earners and tax credits to hire the unemployed and veterans. The plan aims to spur demand and job creation by reducing Social Security taxes for workers and including business payroll relief and investment write offs.
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