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Oct 04 2012
Opinion
Energy and Environment Policy in the 2012 Election
America needs an energy policy that promotes economic development, but many Members of Congress and the Administration are promoting policies and promulgating regulations that centralize power in Washingtonâ€â€an approach that leads to the high prices, technological stagnation, energy shortages, and dependence on foreign sources that politicians use to justify their failed big-government
The Heritage FoundationMar 06 2020
News
Blowout: U.S. Economy Added 273,000 Jobs in February
The great American jobs creation machine is firing on all cylinders, with February’s jobs figures showing far more strength than expected and both January and December being raised higher than previously reported.
The U.S. economy added 273,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5 percent, the government said Friday.
Economists had forecast 175,000
Breitbart NewsNov 28 2015
News
Bernie Sanders Hearkens Back to Old-Time Socialist Presidential Candidate Eugene Debs
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s upstart presidential candidacy is being fueled by voter sentiment that hasn’t been so prominent for nearly a century: a fight between the economic haves and have-nots.
It’s a stewing sense of unfairness last tapped to broad affect by a couple of his political heroes: socialist presidential candidates Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas, each of whom lost five
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 30 2013
Opinion
Economy Shrinks Due to Military Cuts
A release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis today surprised analysts when the top-line number showed that the economy shrunk in the last quarter of 2013 by a slight 0.1%. While small, it was unexpected. This marks the first time the American economy has shrunk since the end of the 2008 recession. Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
TownhallAug 19 2020
Fact Check
Democratic Convention Night 2
It was another unconventional night for fact-checkers at the truncated Democratic National Convention that has been forced to go virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic.
But we found a few statements to write about, including a misleading claim about the U.S. unemployment rate and auto industry bailout claims that don’t tell the whole story.
On the night the Democratic Party
FactCheck.orgJun 07 2014
News
Poroshenko sworn in as Ukraine's president
Petro Poroshenko took the oath of office as Ukraine's president Saturday, calling on armed groups to lay down their weapons as he assumed leadership of a country mired in a violent uprising and economic troubles.
In his inaugural address to the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament, Poroshenko promised amnesty "for those who do not have blood on their hands." That appeared to apply
USA TODAYJan 31 2015
News
Obama Administration Hot and Cold on Climate Warnings
The Environmental Protection Agency chief this week warned of the need to “protect” winter from diminishing because of climate change. This comes a year after the White House science adviser predicted in a controversial video that global warming would cause a “pattern of extreme cold.”
Moreover, industry numbers do not reflect the dire warnings about winter sports taking an economic hit
The BlazeJan 18 2014
News
Obama Believes 2014 'Can Be A Breakthrough Year For America'
President Barack Obama says he believes 2014 can be a breakthrough year for the country.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the U.S. is primed to bring back jobs lost in the recession or to overseas competitors. But he says to make that happen, the U.S. must act to create good-paying jobs and increase economic opportunity.
HuffPostSep 04 2019
News
The 10 counties that will decide the 2020 election
Three years after a presidential election that came down to 77,000 votes in three Midwestern battlegrounds, Democrats and Republicans are eyeing a much larger battlefield ahead of the 2020 contests, one that stretches from the picturesque coastline of rural Maine to the high desert of Arizona.
Both President Trump’s campaign and the Democrats vying to replace him are scrutinizing a
The HillDec 29 2020
News
The political winners of 2020
Marred by a global pandemic and its devastating economic consequences, 2020 is a year we all want to forget. But the consequences of the 58th presidential election in American history will not soon slip into the forgotten pages of a dusty library; for once, that tired cliché of the most important election in our lifetimes felt apt.
It is fitting, poetic even, that the seemingly endless
The Hill