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03/28/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Once again, loud and clear: School funding not tied to educational outcomes and achievement

(BigGovernment.news) You’ve likely heard the argument, mostly from Democrats, that primary education funding in America is too low, and that if we ever want to rise to the top again we’re going to have to dedicate more resources (read money) to our schools. Turns out that this argument is not just bogus, but historically incorrect. […]

03/25/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Colleges estimate new overtime rule could raise tuition $1K per student

(BigGovernment.news) A Tennessee college association reports that a new rule under consideration by the Obama White House would raise tuition around $1,000 per student. Speaking during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee hearing on March 17, Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) grilled Department of Labor secretary Thomas Perez about the rule, which would mandate […]

03/24/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Strangled financial sector says Obama won’t touch Dodd-Frank before he leaves office

(BigGovernment.news) While America’s financial sector certainly share some blame for the Great Recession of 2007-08, so does the federal government and, in particular, the administration of William Jefferson Clinton. Back in the mid-1990s, Clinton went to ridiculous lengths to increase home ownership. In collusion with then-HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, now governor of New York, he […]

03/23/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

New technology stops officials from hiding messages

By Steve Miller AMI Newswire (BigGovernment.news) Emerging technology captures the text messages of public officials and stores them in a searchable format on a server. The capability has the potential to give the public faster and easier access to electronic communications that so far has been often costly to obtain. It was a scandalous public records […]

03/22/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

House forwards legislation loosening coal waste-burning rules

[BigGovernment.news] The House debated legislation on Tuesday that relaxes EPA emissions requirements for plants that burn the waste left over from coal mining. The House rules committee sent the Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment, or SENSE, act to the floor on a party line 6-4 vote Monday. SENSE would modify EPA rules to allow for […]

03/21/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Sen. Sasse: Obamacare going to be more expensive, with fewer options, this year

(BigGovernment.news) As bad as Obamacare has screwed up the health insurance industry, things are going to get much worse this year, according to U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. Affordable Care Act exchange customers in nearly two-thirds of U.S. counties have three or fewer insurers to choose from in 2016, Sasse said in a report last […]

03/18/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Now EPA wants to track your water and electricity use at work

(BigGovernment.news) The Environmental Protection Agency is continuing its push deeper into the lives of Americans, this time by spending nearly $300,000 of your money on technology aimed at tracking employees’ water usage. As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the technology under development will track both the energy and water use of office buildings, and […]

03/17/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Trump: Global currency devaluations ‘dangerous’ for America

(BigGovernment.news) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday blasted currency devaluations around the world for hurting the U.S. economy and costing American jobs, and defended his calls for a tougher U.S. stance on trade. Asked about the European Central Bank’s decision on Thursday to cut interest rates, Trump told CNBC that such […]

03/16/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

It’s time for a balanced budget amendment

[BigGovernment.news] I’ve long made a joke that credit cards are evil. But that’s not true. When a person who is responsible with their money uses a credit card responsibly, credit cards are not evil at all. Try renting a car or making a hotel reservation without a credit card. Credit cards also offer a level […]

03/15/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Big surprise: Public schools that got federal improvement grants aren’t improving

(BigGovernment.news) There hasn’t been much to brag about when it comes to the performance of government-run public schools in the U.S., and the news doesn’t look like it’s going to get much better anytime in the near future. But that hasn’t stopped politicians from throwing more good taxpayer money after bad. The latest example is […]

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