by Jane Richey | Jun 18, 2012 | Free Markets, Politics
The unemployment rate for foreign-born workers in the United States is lower than the unemployment rate for native-born workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS’s non-seasonally adjusted data show that unemployment among foreign born workers...
by Jane Richey | Jun 16, 2012 | Politics
Since launching his Open Society Foundations in 1984, George Soros has donated more than $8 billion to charities around the world. But instead of gaining a mighty reputation for his philanthropy, or his investment prowess, Soros is reviled abroad and criticized here...
by Jane Richey | Jun 15, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Pennsylvania’s statewide unemployment rate held steady at 7;4 percent in May the same rate it was in April, the state the state Department of Labor and Industry said this afternoon. That’s lower than the national rate, which ticked upward from 8.1 percent...
by Jane Richey | Jun 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
“I’ve said that this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and I believe it,” President Obama told an Ohio crowd yesterday. Indeed it is—because in a sluggish economy, American taxpayers are about to be clobbered by the largest tax increase in history....
by Jane Richey | Jun 15, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Wall Street rating agencies are starting to sound warnings again about the possibility of further downgrades of the once-perfect U.S. credit rating as a critical year-end deadline for addressing the nation’s mounting debt nears. Standard & Poor’s Corp. this week...
