Speaker Boehner pledges to hijack the debt ceiling and jeopardize recovery again Working Economics ...he pledged a repeat of last summer’s showdown over the statutory debt ceiling, when congressional Republicans concocted an artificial crisis of epic proportions, by refusing the historically pro forma task of raising the debt ceiling—done 73 times between 1940 and 2010—unless deep spending cuts were made...
Students out in force throughout Quebec CTV.ca ...As the province's lawmakers met during a rare nighttime session in the National Assembly, thousands of students took to the streets throughout Quebec to protest the Charest government's emergency legislation to end the student conflict...
Commerce Department imposes tariffs on solar panels from China Manufacture This ...Last December, a group of 59 Senators and Members of Congress urged President Obama to investigate allegations that Chinese firms are dumping subsidized solar panels in the U.S. at below fair-market value. Today, the U.S. Commerce Department imposed tariffs of roughly 31% on imports of Chinese-made solar cells...
April Jobs Report: Wisconsin Lost 6,200 Private Sector Jobs Last Month WUWM ...Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett ... accused Walker of “trotting out an entirely new set of unverified numbers,” to distract voters from the fact that Wisconsin lost more jobs than any other state last year...
City of Erie settles contract with Teamsters GoErie.com ...The city of Erie and its blue-collar workers have reached an agreement on a new four-year contract, ending negotiations that included a strike authorization vote...
