Trump’s America: US economic growth hits 3.2 percent in 2019
Experts’ predicted that the economy would grow at a much slower rate of 2.3 percent from January to March, according to Bloomberg.
Millionaire Sen. Bernie Sanders once called millionaire senators ‘immoral’
Interestingly, the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist released 10 years of his tax returns in April, confirming his status in the millionaire class.
Supreme Court poised to allow citizenship question on 2020 Census
The census is used to apportion seats in Congress among the states, draw district lines, and award federal aid.
Bernie Sanders wants to phase out nuclear power. One Vermont town was hit hard when plant closed
After the Vermont Yankee plant closed, the town of Vernon lost hundreds of thousands in property taxes, local businesses and hundreds of jobs.
Bernie comes out for the right to vote for terrorists and rapists
“I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy, yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away … you’re running down a slippery slope,” Sanders said.
New Jersey mulls raising gun permit fees from $27 to $550
A carry permit would be $400, an identification card $100, and a gun owner’s permit would be $50. Currently those fees are $20, $5 and $2, respectively, and have not been adjusted since 1966.
Minimum wage hikes are costing California jobs, study says
California’s minimum wage increase has cost the state thousands of jobs worth of growth in the state’s booming restaurant industry, according to a recent study by the University of California Riverside.
Flemming: Paid family leave hits an ethical snag
Paid leave advocates are faced with two options that would harm Vermonters in different ways. But there is a third option: reject paid family leave.
Activists melt down after Trump leaves climate change out of his Earth Day message
President Donald Trump’s Earth Day message Monday does not mention climate change but does tout American jobs and the U.S. economy.
2020 Democrats push for non-New Hampshire residents to vote in New Hampshire election
A handful of Senate Democrats vying for the presidency are rallying around Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in an effort to eliminate a law that prevents college students from voting in the Granite state unless they are permanent residents.
Report: 33 states manipulate jobs data to receive exemptions for food stamp work requirements
A record high 4.1 million able-bodied adults without dependents are enrolled in the federal food stamp program, more than half of whom receive benefits by states waiving the federal work requirement, according to new report by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA).
Border apprehensions in 2019 have already surpassed last year’s total
Customs and Border Patrol announced that 418,000 nationwide apprehensions have occurred this fiscal year to date. A total of 404,142 nationwide apprehensions took place in the entirety of fiscal year 2018.