Friday night news dump bulletin just in from the White House: The sequester is still bad policy and hurting government agencies.
This time, though, it’s not just another agency complaining about the hit — it’s the entire judicial branch saying its operations are being hampered by the across-the-board cuts that kicked in earlier this year……
Share on FacebookAnd we haven’t even seen the worst of it yet. Sequestration’s budget cuts officially took effect in March….
Share on Facebook“The economy has really held up much better than expected, considering the strong fiscal headwinds that we’re experiencing right now,”
Share on FacebookThe House Armed Services Committee passed its sweeping Defense authorization early Thursday morning, authorizing $638 billion in defense spending.
Share on FacebookThe House Republican Conservatives have let it be known they will NOT vote for a comprehensive Bill…Preferring to have piecemeal bills that they can chew to death….
Where does that put us?
Right where we’ve been all along….
Nowhere….
Share on FacebookRepublicans, after fighting Obama’s economic policies for four years, may have no better option than to focus on scandal now that the economy is rebounding.
Share on FacebookMr. Harkin’s bill, which is described in a statement from the committee’s office as an effort to get “the federal government out of the business of ‘micromanaging’ schools,” seeks to address some of the sharpest criticisms of No Child Left Behind. Educators and parents have complained that the law focused too narrowly on standardized tests and prescribed overly stringent consequences for schools that failed to reach benchmarks. The critics say that teachers have subsequently narrowed their curriculums, sapping classrooms of creativity, and that the pressure to keep test scores rising has brought several cheating scandals…..
Share on FacebookHouse Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said his panel may impose conditions on IRS funding, calling the targeting tantamount to a political enemies list that harkens back to “a dark page in our past.”
Share on FacebookThe OECD Better Life Index, released last week, feeds the American instinct toward both jingoism and self-deprecation. In housing access and family wealth, it concludes that the U.S. really is the best country in the world. But we rank 28th among advanced nations in the category of “work-life balance,” ninth from the bottom.
This raises a thorny question: If we’re so rich, why are we working so hard that we don’t even have time to cherish the fruits of our productivity?
Share on FacebookA few months ago a friend of mine asked me to tutor her son in Algebra. I had a good rep with her, I got her husband through Calculus in college. She asked me what I would charge and I told her all I needed was a healthy meal……
Share on FacebookThe migrants were almost entirely male (about 94 percent, a bit higher than other surveys have found), and more than half were in their 20s. About 59 percent were low-skilled workers, mainly in agriculture and construction…..
Share on FacebookSequestration is another term for the automatic budget cuts that hit the federal government earlier this year. The cuts have prompted mass furloughs of federal employees.
Share on FacebookA bill that is speeding through the state Legislature would require jobless people to provide more proof that they are seeking work, and make it easier for the state to recover overpayments — including those made because of government errors — by allowing officials to peek into unemployed people’s bank accounts.
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