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Federal stimulus a hit-and-miss for Long Island

When the heavy equipment started rolling recently on the first Long Island job funded by stimulus funds in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the local construction industry responded not with cheers but with grumbling.

This project is no Hoover Dam - just $1.7 million worth of parkway concrete repairs that will create 12 to 15 jobs, in a year when Long Island has shed more than 40,000...

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