by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
From Associated Press: A published report says Pennsylvania legislators collected $3.9 million for work-related expenses for food and lodging in the last two-year session, including one House member who received more than $55,000. Rep. Dom Costa, who received more in...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Pennsylvania distributed more than $690 million in overpayments of unemployment compensation money between July 2011 and June 2012, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Benefit Accuracy Measurement program. Overpayments are usually the result of...
by Jane Richey | Jan 13, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Obama administration said on Saturday that it will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to sidestep the debt ceiling. “Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2013 | Agenda 21
The World Bank’s chief told Bloomberg in an interview published Thursday that he hopes to elevate the international development institution’s climate change role. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who took office in July, said the lender’s November climate change...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
President Obama signed legislation Thursday giving himself Secret Service protection for life. The bill, the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012, reverses a previous law that limited Secret Service protection for former presidents and their families to 10 years...
