by Jane Richey | Sep 16, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The State Department through its Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs plans to spend $450,000 to create green jobs in Morocco. “Morocco has set the goal to become one of the world’s largest sustainable economies by 2020, with an...
by Jane Richey | Nov 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Placement in jobs retained more than six months through a $500 million Labor Department green-jobs training program is falling 84 percent short of its goal, according to a report released Friday. The Labor inspector general audit offered a bleak picture of one of...
by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Among President Obama’s disingenuous promises made over his four years, he said he would focus on creating “jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced.” Yet he spent billions of U.S. taxpayer’s money overseas to create outsourced jobs. Typical of Obama’s passion for...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama administration on Wednesday acknowledged a wide-ranging definition of “green jobs” that includes bus driver, bicycle-shop clerk and other unexpected lines of employment, which the chairman of the GOP-led House oversight committee said is being done for...
by Jane Richey | Apr 16, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A few highlights from a Reuters report: Since 2009, the wind industry has lost 10,000 jobs, even as the energy capacity of wind farms has almost doubled. By contrast, the oil and gas industry have created 75,000 jobs since Mr. Obama took office. “A $500 million...