Hawaii is the worst of the worst, followed by New Jersey and Alaska. South Dakota and Nebraska do the best job of protecting taxpayers, followed by Kansas. But what does is mean to be the “worst of the worst”? The ALEC report calculated that the burden for taxpayers in Hawaii, New ...
All I can say for sure (as someone who got interested and involved in public policy because of Reagan) is that small-government conservatives have always shared libertarian suspicions about the efficacy of foreign aid. But now there are new reasons for all sorts of people on the right to be...
with just days to go to prevent a government shutdown.Congress has until Friday night to stave off a funding lapse, since lawmakersapproved a continuing resolutionin September to keep the government funded through Dec. 20. The new stopgap measure, with approval...
These funds helped them purchase a $4.1 million house in New York and a $2.1 million seaside apartment in Honolulu, Hawaii, as well as luxury cars like Ferraris. However, these rumors have not been officially confirmed. On Tuesday, September 3, 2024, Sun, former deputy chief of staff to ...
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Prosecutors also said Watson sold the devices to two men in Minnesota who allegedly attempted to aid a foreign terrorist organization and built firearm suppressors that they believed they sold to the Mideast militant group Hamas. Watson’s attorney, Shawn McDermott, had denied in a court filing th...
This chapter focuses primarily on the application of platform thinking to government technology projects. But it is worth noting that the idea of government as a platform applies to every aspect of the government’s role in society. For example, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which commi...
The brief lapse in federal funding in the overnight hours is expected to have minimal impact on government operations. The Senate plans to vote in the next few hours on a short-term funding patch that will fund the government through March 14 and provide $110 billion in disaster a...
The second plan he laid out would involve three separate votes: one a stopgap funding bill into March, another on money for natural disasters and a third on aid for farmers. Johnson would try to pass that plan through the Rules Committee, meaning it would have to clear a couple of tough...
This essay explores American Indian cultural expressions related to government food aid through interviews with Indians and surveys of Indian mass media. Many Indians consider foods like frybread, cheese, and canned meats as traditional or characteristic Indian foods, even though they did not exist in...