Sequestration, the Pentagon, and the States offers selected state-level briefs focused on the local impact of looming automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration and historically high levels of Pentagon spending. On March 1, unless Congress acts, billions of dollars will
Some lawmakers have an almost-mythical resistance to raising revenue at a moment when affluent individuals and big corporations have the lowest tax burden in more than half a century. — by Jo Comerford Sequestration is both ugly and hard to explain. As
If the Postal Service were run like Congress, postal workers would only show up on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays — except when they were on vacation, which would be a lot. — by Donald Kaul The Postal Service says it’s going to
Heinous schemes to limit the right to vote keep appearing in state legislatures. By Ron Carver Just before his death this past Thanksgiving, my friend Lawrence Guyot whispered one last assignment: We must “internationalize” the struggle over the right to vote. Decades
Washington should do more than the minimum on minimum wage. — by Jim Hightower “In the wealthiest nation on Earth,” President Barack Obama declared in his State of the Union speech, “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.”
— by William J. Astore If one quality characterizes our wars today, it’s their endurance. They never seem to end. Though war itself may not be an American inevitability, these days many factors combine to make constant war an American near certainty.
Guantanamo prisoners get military benefits? One would think that a member of the United States Senate would be aware of whether or not the Pentagon had approved educational benefits for an unprecedented demographic. Even more assuredly, you’d expect the Senate Minority Leader
The message we’ve been hearing from the mainstream media about Obama’s push for a renewed brand of liberalism is flagrantly false. — by Peter Hart Here’s a thought: Maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama isn’t a socialist. I know, if you’ve tuned into
States are adopting laws meant to keep consumers in the dark about where their food comes from. — by Will Potter Do you have a right to know where that steak on your plate came from? Should it be legal to photograph
— by Adam Peck on Feb 22, 2013 at 6:15 pm The achievement gap between school districts in high-income neighborhoods and those in low-income ones is already more canyon than crack, and if $1.7 trillion in automatic sequestration cuts are allowed to go into
