by Jane Richey | Jan 16, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Those are all ways Heritage experts have described government programs Congress is funding—with your hard-earned money—in its new trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill. Here are a few big failures that need to be eliminated or seriously reformed—but instead are...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The proposed $1.1 trillion spending bill rolled out by House-Senate negotiators on Monday night restores funding to the Head Start program, but is the program actually worth the cost? Proposed in the 1,582 page budget deal is an $8.6 billion investment in Head Start,...
by Jane Richey | Feb 14, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
During Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Obama called for an increase in preschool education in order to prepare workers in the future: “[N]one of it will matter unless we also equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs. And that...
by Jane Richey | Jan 3, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The estimate of insured losses from Sandy comes in around $20 billion—but the total aid package proposed is three times that amount. Roughly $28 billion of the request is marked for future disaster-mitigation projects. Some Head Start centers may need repairs from...
by Jane Richey | May 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Using snazzy graphics and interactive slideshow features, BarackObama.com spins a glowing narrative of imaginary Julia’s life from age 3 to 67. But “Julia” is a pathetic figment of the progressive imagination. She simply cannot function without the...