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Washington DC, in a unanimous ruling the Supreme Court on Monday said immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally cannot apply for green cards simply because they enjoy Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
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Washington DC, the Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to the constitutionality of the federal requirement that only men register for the draft when they become legal adults, declining to revisit an earlier decision that upheld the policy on Selective Service.
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Washington DC, Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 559,000 in May, and the unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage point to 5.8 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, in public and private education, and in health care and social assistance.
Continue reading U.S. added 559,000 jobs in May, Misses 671,000 estimate
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New York NY , its been over a month and still no plausible explanation from the people counters of what happened with the inexplicable numbers in the Empire State.
Continue reading Census Numbers for New York State Come Increasingly Under Fire
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Washington DC, the Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.6 percent in April, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices rose 1.0 percent in March and 0.5 percent in February. (See table A.) On an unadjusted basis, the final demand index moved up 6.2 percent for the 12 months ended in April, the largest advance since 12- month data were first calculated in November 2010.
Continue reading The Producer Price Index Posts the Largest Advance Since November 2010
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Washington DC, While the Biden administration has denied that problems at the southern border are a “crisis,” two-thirds of voters disagree and most say that President Joe Biden’s policies are to blame.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 66% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the current situation with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border is a crisis. Twenty percent (20%) say it’s not a crisis, and 13% are not sure.
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Washington DC, The population of the United States grew by just 7.4 percent in the last decade, its second-slowest rate in any decade since the first Census was taken back in 1790. The only other decade with slower growth? The 1930s.
Six of the seven states that will lose a seat in Congress — Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia — are in the Rust Belt. Five of those states, leaving West Virginia aside, have been losing seats for a long time.
Continue reading U.S. Census Bureau : Blue State Exodus Continues
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Washington DC, Democrats in Congress last week proposed legislation to increase the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 13, but most voters oppose the so-called “court-packing” plan. Not sure of the point the court has clearly given up its constitutional duties and is no threat to the democrat agenda.
Continue reading 55% of Voters Oppose Supreme Court Expansion, But Most Democrats Support It
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MN, Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill criticized Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) for her race-baiting comments over the weekend regarding the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who’s charged with the murder of George Floyd.
Continue reading Rep. Maxine Waters takes Heat Over Race-baiting Comments
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Washington DC, On Monday, April 12, Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) issued a statement on Twitter, calling for an end to policing and incarceration and declaring that policing in America is “inherently and intentionally racist.”
Continue reading Congressman Jeff Van Drew Squashes Idiotic “end to policing and incarceration” idea
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WASHINGTON DC, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been vocal in urging the President and Congress to address infrastructure as their first priority after pandemic relief, even building a diverse coalition of over 300 organizations unified in calling for action by the Fourth of July. The following statement can be attributed to Neil Bradley, executive vice president and chief policy officer, U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
Continue reading U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls Democrat Tax Plan “Dangerously Misguided”
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Washington DC, according to the Tax Foundation if the Biden tax plan is fully implemented, increasing the corporate income tax would undermine the progress policymakers made four years ago. An increase in the federal corporate tax rate to 28 percent would raise the U.S. federal-state combined tax rate to 32.34 percent, giving the U.S. the highest combined corporate income tax rate in the OECD, ahead of France at 32.02 percent and the U.S. rank on the Tax Foundation’s International Tax Competitiveness Index would fall from 21st in 2020 to 30th, with the corporate rank falling from 19th to 33rd overall.
Continue reading Biden Tax Plan Will Destroy US Competitiveness
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Ridgewood NJ, Larry Summers, who was President Obama’s Treasury Secretary, is getting hammered by the left for becoming a thorn in the side of the Biden Administration. Summers is no fiscal conservative or supply sider, but he has rightly criticized Biden for killing the Keystone Pipeline. His latest claim is that Biden is pursuing the “least responsible” macroeconomic policy in decades.
Continue reading “Economist” Paul Krugman: Nothing to See Here on Rampage of Federal Spending
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Washington DC, Two-thirds of likely voters are convinced there is a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, despite claims from the White House to the contrary, and 53 percent of those voters place the blame squarely in the lap of Joe Biden.
Continue reading Kids in Cages : Voters Agree there is a Border Crisis, and Majority Blames Biden
Federal income tax filing due date for the 2020 tax year will be automatically extended from April 15, 2021, to May 17, 2021
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Washington DC, Federal income tax filing due date for the 2020 tax year will be automatically extended from April 15, 2021, to May 17, 2021. The Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service also announced they disbursed approximately 90 million Economic Impact Payments from the American Rescue Plan. As announced last week, Economic Impact Payments are rolling out in tranches to millions of Americans in the coming weeks.
