by Jane Richey | May 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In the last four years, there was a 6-fold increase in the number of Americans over 55 who had been unemployed for 6 months or longer, a federal auditor told CNSNews.com. With this increasing number of older workers experiencing long-term unemployment, concerns are...
by Jane Richey | May 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly unemployment aid applications stayed at a seasonally adjusted 370,000, the same level as the previous week. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell from roughly 380,000 to 375,000. Applications for benefits...
by Jane Richey | May 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The more the Federal Reserve Board does, the less responsibility Congress and the White House take for making the right fiscal decisions, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) said Tuesday during a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing on the Federal Reserve Board’s...
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 | Apr 30, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The human capacity for self-delusion truly is remarkable. Most people out there end up believing exactly what they want to believe even when the truth is staring them right in the face. Take the U.S. economy for example. Barack Obama wants to believe that his...
