by Jane Richey | Feb 1, 2013 | Health Care
A global medical technology company has laid off nearly 100 employees at its offices in Tennessee and Massachusetts and is blaming the layoffs on the medical device tax tied to ObamaCare. London-based Smith & Nephew said Thursday it laid off fewer than 100...
by Jane Richey | Feb 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Approximately 5.2 percent of funds obligated to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during fiscal years 2009-2011 actually went to the construction of new highways. An additional two and a half percent of that funding went to new construction of bridges,...
by Jane Richey | Feb 1, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Sixty-one percent of U.S. small business owners said they were “worried about the potential cost of healthcare” and 56 percent said they were “worried about new government regulations,” according to the Wells Fargo/Gallup small business index released on Jan. 31,...
by Jane Richey | Feb 1, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The number of Americans not in the labor force grew by 169,000 in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest jobs report. BLS labels people who are unemployed and no longer looking for work as “not in the labor force,” including people who have...
by Jane Richey | Feb 1, 2013 | Health Care
In its final regulations, the IRS states that parents will be made to pay the penalty (called a “shared responsibility payment”) if they can claim an uninsured child or spouse as a dependent, regardless of whether they actually claim them or not. “The...