By Mark Mix
Home day care providers would be forced into unions
Newly released data by the Social Security Administration shows that 10,978,040 Americans now are receiving disability benefits. What the numbers don't tell is that if all those individuals created their own state, it would be be the eighth-most populous.
Consumers remained largely undaunted by the budget wars in Washington last month, with retailers reporting a 0.1 percent increase in sales after a 0.5 percent slump in March, the Census Bureau reported Monday morning.
Consumers remained largely undaunted by the budget wars in Washington last month, with retailers reporting a 0.1 percent increase in sales after a 0.5 percent slump in March, the Census Bureau reported Monday morning.
Blacks voted at a higher rate than whites in the 2012 election, the first time on record that has occurred, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
Red River Computer Co., which resells Cisco, Apple and Dell computers to the government, is a company with only 68 employees, yet it paid its top executives more than $5 million in 2011, including $1.2 million to its CEO, Richard Bolduc.
Rage over the waste and injustice of agents sent by the federal government to bang on doors of law-abiding citizens to ask probing, creepy questions is normally something that bubbles up only every 10 years. But ever since the federal government became a cancerous leviathan, the outrage is now an annual occurrence.
The Census Bureau is finally dropping its century-old reference to black Americans as "Negros," and adopting more modern-day lingo — "black" or "African American."
U.S. retailers eked out a 0.1 percent gain in sales last month despite a big increase in payroll taxes that hit more than 100 million middle-class consumers during the month, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.
U.S. retailers eked out a 0.1 percent gain in sales last month despite a big increase in payroll taxes that hit more than 100 million middle-class consumers during the month, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday morning.
The ranks of the nation's most senior citizens may be tiny, but their numbers will be growing steadily for the foreseeable future, the federal government says.
For the first time, the Census Bureau is giving U.S. households a chance to respond to government surveys over the Internet, part of a bid to save costs and boost sagging response rates in a digital age.
For the first time, the Census Bureau is giving U.S. households a chance to respond to government surveys over the Internet, part of a bid to save costs and boost sagging response rates in a digital age.
Well, folks, unless you've been living under a rock since Cyber Monday, you know that the politicians in Washington have not gotten very far in terms of solving the "fiscal cliff" before the end of 2012. When you read this, we'll have 10 business days left before we ring in the New Year. The crux of the dispute seems to be raising revenue – code for "higher taxes" – versus cutting spending.
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New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases.
