Tag: Great Recession
No more tax break Christmas trees
Christmas came early this year to some of Washington’s biggest special-interest groups when Congress passed legislation that was laden like a decorated Christmas tree with some of the finest-looking and most expensive ornaments lobbyists can buy.
It’s not just police: Waynesboro does everything on the cheap
There has been a good bit of attention the past couple of weeks on Waynesboro’s ongoing issues with an understaffed, underpaid police force, as if this is a new development.
President Obama on the latest jobs report
We just got a jobs report today showing that we’ve now seen the fastest job growth in the United States in the first half of the year since 1999.
Give college graduates a future with real freedom: Freedom from debt
For members of the college and high school classes of 2014, and for past graduates, this effort to tackle the student debt issue is sorely needed.
White House issues energy report
Today, the White House released a report, “An All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy as a Path to Sustainable Economic Growth,” detailing the President’s all-of-the-above energy strategy.
Obama: No isn’t the answer
There are legitimate debates to be had on issues like how to deal with long-term debt and healthcare. But those issues aren’t the focus right now, President Barack Obama noted in remarks at a private Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser in Potomac, Md., Monday night.
Ken Plum: Closing the income gap
Between 2007 and 2012, the median wages of Virginia’s highest income earners rose by 8 percent while the lowest income families’ wages shrank by 10 percent, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis.
Frank Clemente: This Christmas, help the unemployed, not Wall Street
When holiday shoppers make a bad choice, the worst result may be an ugly sweater. But Congress recently made a bad choice that will ruin the holidays for over a million families—and will spoil the coming new year for millions more.
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