by Jane Richey | Jan 15, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
Advocates for military retirees have been pressuring lawmakers to stop the planned cuts to veterans’ pensions from going into effect this year. But a new spending deal announced in Congress this week would leave 90 percent of those cuts in place, according to one...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The proposed $1.1 trillion spending bill rolled out by House-Senate negotiators on Monday night restores funding to the Head Start program, but is the program actually worth the cost? Proposed in the 1,582 page budget deal is an $8.6 billion investment in Head Start,...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year’s elections. Most of what’s said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, ill-informed. Much to their disgrace, economists focusing on measures of income...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
In their first three months of operation, the federal and state health-insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act—AKA Obamacare–have signed up 5,572,305 people who qualify to get federal funding for their health care, either through Medicaid or...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
Government figures released Monday show that more than 81,000 Pennsylvanians have enrolled under the federal health care law, a sharp increase from the 11,800 who were signed up at the end of November. The Obama administration now says that more than 2 million...
