by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A record 23,116,928 American households were enrolled in the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—AKA food stamps—during the month of June, according to data released this month by the Department of Agriculture. That outnumbers the...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Congressional Budget Office released its 2013 long-term budget outlook on Tuesday, stating that “a large and continually growing federal debt …would increase the probability of a fiscal crisis for the United States.” The report says under current...
by Jane Richey | Sep 16, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The federal government raked in a record of approximately $2,472,542,000,000 in tax revenues through the first eleven months of fiscal 2013, which ran from Oct. 1, 2012 through the end of August, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for August. That is up about...
by Jane Richey | Sep 16, 2013 | Health Care
Union leaders in Pennsylvania are echoing concerns expressed by the national AFL-CIO about the implementation of the federal health care law. At this week’s national conference of the AFL-CIO, an umbrella group for dozens of labor unions, union leaders approved a...
by Jane Richey | Sep 16, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The State Department through its Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs plans to spend $450,000 to create green jobs in Morocco. “Morocco has set the goal to become one of the world’s largest sustainable economies by 2020, with an...
