by Jane Richey | May 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The workforce participation rate is now at its lowest rate in 30 years, with 63.6 percent of adults who could work actually working. When people can’t find work, they adjust. Families spend less. Children move in with parents. Some people seek additional training to...
by Jane Richey | May 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is pressing oil companies to back fuel-blends that contain less gasoline and more ethanol. He says it will “increase America’s energy security and spur additional job creation,” particularly in rural areas — a...
by Jane Richey | May 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Labor Department says employers added 115,000 jobs in April. That’s below March’s upwardly revised 154,000 jobs and far fewer than the pace from earlier this year. The unemployment rate has fallen a full percentage point since August to a three-year...
by Jane Richey | May 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The State House voted Wednesday to approve a constitutional amendment that would give municipalities the power to exclude homesteads from property taxes. Current rules allow for only 50 percent of the median assessment of a farmstead or homestead to be excluded. A...
by Jane Richey | May 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Today, President Obama’s re-election campaign is pushing the fact that America has seen 26 consecutive months of tepid job growth. This is hardly an impressive figure. From September 2003 to December 2007, George W. Bush oversaw 52 consecutive months of job growth....
by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: “We believe that Social Security legislation, now billed as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for...
