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...
by Jane Richey | Sep 14, 2013 | Health Care, Uncategorized
An employee of Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange, MNsure, sent an unencrypted file to the wrong person and left 2,400 people’s private information at the mercy of a nearby insurance agent. One exchange staffer’s simple mistake gave insurance broker Jim Koester access to...
by Jane Richey | Sep 14, 2013 | Agenda 21
The Wall Street Journal reported that those who were briefed on the rule said “even the newest, most advanced coal-fired power plants in the world would fall far short of that revised standard,” and such stringent limits would effectively “ban new...
by Jane Richey | Sep 13, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Social Security made $1.3 billion in potentially improper disability payments to people who had jobs when they were supposed to be unable to work, congressional investigators said in a report Friday. The Government Accountability Office estimated that 36,000 workers...