by Terrance Heath | Jul 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
Ryan's Poverty Plan Panned Bob Greenstein, of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, says Paul Ryan's poverty plan would increase poverty and shrink poverty programs: "A centerpiece of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new poverty plan would consolidate...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
"Factoryless" Manufacturers And Corporate Defectors WSJ's Timothy Aeppel covers furor over "factoryless" manufacturers: "Manufacturers, by definition, make things. But is that definition outdated? That’s the question behind a move among federal government agencies to...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Dueling Rulings On Obamacare Wild day for Obamacare: Appeals court rulings conflict. Politico: "First, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a 2-1 decision said the insurance subsidies can't be awarded through the 36 federal-run exchanges, that they can...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 22, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Minimum Wage
Sen. Rand Paul mocked President and Mrs. Obama for wanting their daughters to experience working for minimum wage. My own experience taught me “the value of work,” and to value the workers for whom earning a paycheck isn’t always fun, stimulating, or fair. In a...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 21, 2014 | Progressive Vision
Sixty bodies lie in a heap on the floor of a morgue that receives the corpses of children under 10 and as young as 2. It's the body count for just one day, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. How can we in good conscience send children back there? We just did. The first...
