After nine overhauls of our public education system in less than 30 years, the U.S. has fallen in world standings for education, to 39th in math and 24th in reading. We are officially behind Estonia. The schools aren’t getting the job done.
The economic numbers clearly have improved on President Donald Trump’s watch, with unemployment down and consumer confidence stronger.
VPIRG will never give up trying to get legislative majorities to tax, mandate, prohibit, spend, regulate and penalize the people of this state until its every imaginable goal is achieved — and that imagination has no limit.
A 2017 survey by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation revealed some disturbing facts about what millennials think of communism and socialism.
Aside from the caterwauling on the left side of the House and predictions of our moon exploding and destroying all life on the planet because taxes might be cut, reform of one kind or another is inevitable. Why? Because it’s not really the revenue side of the equation that’s the bulk of the problem. It’s the spending.
Many people are worried that companies like Netflix will raise prices now that the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 Thursday to repeal internet regulations imposed by the agency in 2015. But is this fear of more expensive video-streaming services due to the reversion of policy legitimate?
The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released an opinion last month identifying President Donald Trump’s legal authority to name an interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), after the Obama-era director designated his own successor when he resigned.
Americans deserve to know the truth about the proposed tax reform packages. There are several myths going around about what the proposed plan would do. Here are a few of them, and why they’re wrong.
There is the general lesson to be learned that when you reduce the barriers (such as cost) to doing business, you get more activity that generates more revenue. And, when you increase those costs you get less of both.
Out of the 50 states, Forbes ranks Vermont 48 for business climate. Only Alaska and West Virginia project a more dismal future than we do.
VPIRG now wants to “keep inefficient appliances off store shelves” and eliminate any possibility that a Vermonter could purchase a washer and dryer that VPIRG believes consumes too much electricity.
As employers, we have the responsibility and legal obligation to ensure that sexual harassment is not tolerated in our companies. This has reminded me that all Vermont companies must have policies regarding sexual harassment in the workplace.