Every year, the federal government distributes more than $400 billion based on census data, according to Tory DeCaire, chair of the city’s 2010 Complete Census Count Committee. A lack of participation can result in the community receiving less federal funding and less access to important services and resources than it might otherwise have received.
For the fifth time in 2009, the county’s unemployment rate crossed 10%.
Figures released by the state Labor Department Thursday show that Oswego County’s jobless rate soared to 10.6% in December, up 1.3 percentage points from the month before.
Our friends at Oswego County Tourism will be out and about this weekend, drumming up business (and sales tax dollars) for the county. They’ll be at the Great Northeastern Sports Show at the State Fairgrounds.
Stage Door, which has had an office in Fulton, has raised more than half a million dollars using the name of the union.
Gov. Paterson’s plan to fill a massive hole in the state budget consists, in part, of blowing holes in thousands of smaller budgets across the state. His plan to cut education aid, for example, just about doubled the size of the deficit the Fulton City School District is trying to fill.
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