After the Texas Legislature’s latest round of funding cuts to higher education, some public universities in the state hope outsourcing some functions will help trim their budgets.
To discourage businesses from outsourcing their operator services, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is proposing legislation to tax businesses that set up help lines overseas. The levy, under Schumer’s bill, would be a quarter-cent per call. Reuters reports:
Customers calling 800 numbers are often transferred overseas, and in such
Thomas Frank has a terrific op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, praising President Obama’s recent presidential memorandum declaring the end of an era of unrestrained government outsourcing.
The president “meant to put the kibosh on the GOP’s favorite method for spreading the wealth around,” Frank writes, noting the More…
Sen. Barack Obama is in the bright red state of Indiana today for an “early vote rally,” and he’s getting a boost on the airwaves from a Hoosier favorite, singer John Mellencamp.
Today, Mellencamp cut a new radio ad for the Indiana market that lays out a detailed More…
Sen. Barack Obama sharpened an economic attack on his Republican rival today, tying Sen. John McCain to the Bush administration’s lax treatment of foreign tax shelters. At an event in Indianapolis, Obama added several new populist paragraphs to his stump speech:
Miracles never cease.
In a quiet announcement made earlier this month, the Bush administration said it has canceled plans to outsource the development of an IT system under the new GI Bill, which became law in June.
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