by Bill Scher | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
If Mike Huckabee ever wants to meet Uncle Sugar, he need only look in the mirror. Earlier today, Huckabee invented quite the straw man in the not-so-controversial debate over the Obamacare provision requiring health insurers to cover contraception: "If the Democrats...
by Bill Scher | Jan 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Inequality To Be Spotlighted In SOTU Inequality, minimum wage to be Obama's focus in SOTU. The Hill: "A president who has yet to add to the big legislative accomplishments of his first term will call for raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour and extending federal...
by Bill Scher | Jan 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
America Gets More Unequal This Month States start cutting jobless aid. NYT: "Starting on Jan. 1, the maximum period of unemployment payments dropped to 26 weeks in most states, down from as much as 73 weeks ... the country’s safety net for jobless workers has...
by Bill Scher | Jan 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
SOTU Highlights Dem Divisions "Obama Under Pressure From Divided Democrats on Economic Message in State of the Union" reports National Journal: "The party's centrist wing, which generally backs entitlement reforms and free-trade agreements that appeal to the more...
by Bill Scher | Jan 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Debt Limit Weeks Away After spending bill clears Congress, another debt limit confrontation looms. Bloomberg: "Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said yesterday that Congress should act as soon as possible to raise the borrowing cap at least by late February ... Democrats...
