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Obama Bullies Small Employers With Bogus Perjury Charges, Threat Of Prison Time

by Doug Book The most thoroughly corrupt Regime in the nation’s history has told the Treasury Department–read, I.R.S–that beginning immediately, the nation’s small business owners must “…’certify’ that they are not shedding full-time workers simply to avoid the [ObamaCare employer] mandate. Officials said employers will be told to sign a ‘self-attestation’ on their tax forms […] Continue reading →

Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club to cut 2,300 workers

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it’s eliminating 2,300 workers at its Sam’s Club division as it reduces the ranks of middle managers in a bid to be more nimble. The layoffs, which cut 2 percent of the membership club’s U.S. employee count of about 116,000, mark the largest since 2010 when the Sam’s Club unit laid […] Continue reading →

Education: Keeping Teachers in the Classroom

Priya Abraham, Given our still-sputtering economy, Americans have grown used to their public schools facing tight budgets. This fiscal squeeze has drawn out a hidden crisis in public education: How do we keep our best teachers in the classroom? The short answer is, we don’t. Between 2009 and 2012, public schools laid off about 140,000 […] Continue reading →

Pentagon chief can’t offer hope in budget cuts

JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The audience gasped in surprise and gave a few low whistles as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered the news that furloughs, which have forced a 20 percent pay cut on most of the military’s civilian workforce, probably will continue next year, and it might get worse. “Those are […] Continue reading →

Which Obama Policy Killed the Recovery?

Not long ago, we used stock market-style technical analysis to reveal that the policies implemented during President George W. Bush’s tenure in office were most likely responsible for launching the economic recovery that followed the December 2007 recession and that the policies implemented during President Barack H. Obama’s tenure in office were most likely responsible […] Continue reading →

A Sharply Increasing Trend in U.S. Layoffs

The BLS’ report on the number of new jobless claims filed in the week ending 15 September 2021 indicates that the pace of layoffs in the United States is accelerating at the fastest pace since the 2007 recession began. At present, the average rate of increase in the number of initial unemployment insurance benefit claims […] Continue reading →