Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Bored in Retirement? Join the Peace Corps

When President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961, Harpreet Datt was 10 years old and not yet a U.S. citizen after emigrating from India.

Like thousands of other young people at the time, she was inspired by the call to work in another culture and help others. When the last of her four children left for college three years ago, Datt knew she had a rare window of opportunity to pursue her childhood dream of joining.

Stimulus: Lighting Up Manufacturing Growth with 48C Tax Credit

This story of recovery has many factors: cutting- edge energy-saving technology, export-led growth, and most importantly, good manufacturing jobs here in the US.

At the center of the story is a Recovery Act tax credit that helped to pull a lot of this together.

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