by Jane Richey | Dec 7, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
The federal government ran a deficit of $292 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2013 – October and November 2012 – amounting to $4.8 billion of borrowed money each day. “The federal budget deficit was $292 billion for the first two months of fiscal year...
by Jane Richey | Dec 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
At an event on Capitol Hill to discuss how the U.S. State Department is helping small businesses in Latin America, the Washington director of a U.N. economic commission on Latin America said average annual growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in that region in 2011...
by Jane Richey | Dec 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The unemployment rate for civilian government workers plunged from 4.2 percent in October to 3.8 percent in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as government added 35,000 to its taxpayer-funded payrolls during the month. In October, federal, state...
by Jane Richey | Dec 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Seventy-three percent of the new civilian jobs created in the United States over the last five months are in government, according to official data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In June, a total of 142,415,000 people were employed in the U.S, according...
by Jane Richey | Dec 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
In the next few days, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to propose long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders _ better known as “black boxes” _ in all new cars and light trucks. But...
