In the often-fractious debate over passing a comprehensive school voucher bill in Pennsylvania, accusations of ulterior motives have been lobbed by supporters and critics of SB 1.
Teachers unions present the idea of using public dollars to pay for a child’s private school education as an effort to privatize primary More…
This morning, the Labor Department announced that the U.S. unemployment rate remained at 9.6 percent in September, reflecting a continued stall-out in the recovery. This is the last major jobs report before the November midterm elections. The unemployment rate has held between 9.5 and 9.7 percent since April. And More…
Today, the Census Bureau announced that one in seven Americans lived in poverty last year. Reporting income and poverty statistics for 2009, the Bureau said median income did not change substantially, remaining around $49,800. But the poverty rate climbed to 14.3 from 13.2 percent. That means that during 2009, More…
The economy added 431,000 jobs last month, dropping the national unemployment rate from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent, the Department of Labor Statistics announced this morning.
But Republicans, who a month ago were saying that they’d recognize progress when the jobless rate fell, aren’t impressed. Indeed, Republican House More…
The Senate voted today to end debate on the Commerce, Justice and State appropriations bill without considering the controversial amendment proposed by Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Bob Bennett (R-Utah) that would have stopped the U.S. Census from taking place without an additional question about each individual’s citizenship More…
“I think it’s pretty clear that Harry Reid and the Democratic side … wants illegals counted in the Census, wants illegals in the reapportionment of the House,” Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said on a conservative talk radio show late yesterday, as reported by The Hill.
Vitter isMore…
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