by Jane Richey | Aug 2, 2013 | Health Care
Ohio’s GOP insurance commissioner is projecting a marked increase in health insurance rates under ObamaCare, adding fuel to the debate over how the healthcare law will affect premiums. The state insurance department announced Thursday that individual health...
by Jane Richey | Aug 2, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
There were 988,000 discouraged workers in the United States in July, an increase of 136,000 from July 2012, according to data released today the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). “Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no...
by Jane Richey | Aug 1, 2013 | Agenda 21
The House Science Committee will mark up legislation Thursday that forces the Environmental Protection Agency to alter its ongoing study of the effects of oil-and-gas “fracking” on drinking water resources. Chairman Lamar Smith’s (R-Texas) bill would require the...
by Jane Richey | Aug 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Federal employees were paid more than $155 million of taxpayer dollars in 2011 for spending more than 3.4 million hours of “official time” on labor union activities that fell outside their assigned government duties, according to a survey by the Office of...
by Jane Richey | Aug 1, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
President Barack Obama – citing the job losses since he took office — said “the economy would be much better off,” unemployment would be 6.5 percent and the national deficit would be in decline if there were more federal, state and local government workers. “If...
