D.C. unemployment rate hits record 11.9 percent

A D.C. Council committee will hold hearings this week on the proposed Stimulus Accountability Act, which would require all businesses that receive federal stimulus grants through the District government to post their available jobs on the DOES Web site and then report how many jobs went to city residents. The bill was introduced by Councimen Kwame Brown and Harry Thomas Jr.

Brown called on the Fenty administration “to spend just as much money investing in adult job training as they do in building garage parking for bicycles.”