News links for the day...

State and local

There’s the government you need, and the government you’re willing to pay for

Education official: Consider reducing 180-day school year

 

Economy

The stimulus and jobs bills: Tax cuts can in fact create jobs

Bernanke signals US rates to be kept low

Forecasts raised as Asia carries on growing

Ben Bernanke's Testimony before the House Financial Services Committee

Caltech scientists find first physiological evidence of brain's response to inequality

Wow! The Republicans were right about the stimulus after all

Who pays what in taxes, and how it’s changed

US stimulus added up to 2.1 mln jobs in Q4 2009

Bruce Bartlett: On Starving the Beast

 

National

Gingrich says Obama "has dumb ideas"

Health Care Reform: The Obama Compromise Proposal and the Likely Republican Response, by Mark Thoma:

Confused By ‘Nuclear Option’ Spin, Right-Wingers Claim Obama And Biden Called Reconciliation A ‘Power Grab’

Jeb Bush: Sarah Palin lacks a ‘depth of understanding.’

Arnold Schwarzenegger: GOP engaging in 'bogus talk' on health care

 

International

Greece in turmoil over austerity

Allawi warns Iraq of return to sectarianism

Posted via email from Jim Nichols for GA State House