Does a Minimum Wage Increase Come With a Price?
As promised in his 2014 State of the Union Address, President Obama signed an executive order raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for a portion of federal contractors. Obama has also pressed...
View ArticleTaxpayers fund creationism in the classroom(MUST READ)!
Taxpayers in 14 states will bankroll nearly $1 billion this year in tuition for private schools, including hundreds of religious schools that teach Earth is less than 10,000 years old, Adam and Eve...
View ArticleReport: US prisons hold 10 times more mentally ill people than state hospitals
Image: Forbes More than 356,000 people with mental illnesses are incarcerated in the United States, as opposed to around 35,000 receiving treatment in state hospitals, a new study found, highlighting...
View ArticleCBO: High costs if Trump follows through on ACA sabotage threats | MSNBC
For health care advocates, congressional Republicans’ difficulties in passing regressive health care legislation have brought some comfort, but the threats haven’t gone away. Not only are many GOP...
View ArticleRifle Purchase Age Increase ‘On The Table’ For RNC, Despite NRA Opposition
Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told The Washington Examiner that the committee was weighing whether to support President Donald Trump’s proposal of increasing the age for rifle...
View ArticleU.S. Job Openings Equal Unemployed for 1st time In 2 Decades
WASHINGTON (AP) — If you’re looking for a job right now, this may be about as good as it gets: There are roughly as many open jobs in the United States as there are unemployed people. In March,...
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