by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Saying the jobs report shows the Obama administration has more “work to do,” Thomas Perez said on CNBC that immigration reform, in addition to promise zones, was needed to jumpstart the economy. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member on the Senate...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Free Markets
The economy added a paltry 74,000 jobs in December, a figure far below the gains of recent months that raised immediate questions about the strength of the economy — and whether the report was an exception to the trend. The unemployment rate dropped from 7 percent in...
by Jane Richey | Jan 5, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Still, five years into the Obama presidency, the economy is grossly underperforming. Contrary to the dominant media narrative, it’s not bad luck or the financial crisis to blame, but bad policies — from the $860 billion “stimulus” that didn’t...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
he nation’s poverty rate remained stuck at 15 percent last year despite America’s slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor and an unwelcome benchmark for President Barack Obama’s recovery plans....
by Jane Richey | Jul 25, 2013 | Politics
President Obama sure was excited about his speech yesterday. He talked for more than an hour in sweeping, grandiose terms about everything that’s happened since he became President, and everything that’s still going to happen. If only more of it were true. Here are...