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Trump’s economy! Unemployment sinks to HISTORIC LOW

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell for a second straight week, further evidence of the strength of the labor market. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that claims for jobless benefits last week dropped by 8,000, to a seasonally adjusted 237,000. The less-volatile four-week average rose by 1,000 to 243,000. THE […]

GOP House works to expand VA budget

Republicans controlling the House are taking the first steps to approve President Donald Trump’s big budget increase for veterans’ health care and the Pentagon. At stake is an $89 billion spending bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Pentagon construction projects that’s scheduled for a preliminary panel vote on Monday. The bill would give […]

College gets INSANE donation from anonymous alumnus

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting a $140 million donation from a former student. Officials at the elite school said Wednesday that the donation comes from an alumnus who wants to remain anonymous. The gift is an unrestricted donation, meaning it can be used in any way to support MIT’s research and education mission. […]

GOP senators plan to vote on health care this month

Senate GOP leaders plan to vote as soon as this month on major health care legislation even though they remain uncertain, for now, whether their still-unwritten bill will pass, lawmakers said Monday. The House passed its own version of legislation to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law last month. Senate Republicans […]

Taxpayers are paying HOW much to keep criminals comfortable?!

The cost of imprisoning each of California’s 130,000 inmates is expected to reach a record $75,560 in the next year, enough to cover the annual cost of attending Harvard University and still have plenty left over for pizza and beer. The price for each inmate has doubled since 2005, even as court orders related to […]

Nasty! Nancy Pelosi claws at GOP budget…again!

Top House Dem Nancy Pelosi says that GOP leaders shouldn’t take for granted that Democrats will vote to increase the government’s borrowing cap. Pelosi told reporters Friday that she has no “intention of supporting lifting the debt ceiling to enable the Republicans to give another tax break to the wealthy.” Her remarks came as the […]

Trump’s economy! Companies add WAY more jobs than expected

U.S. private businesses added 253,000 jobs in May, a private survey found, a sign that employers expect economic growth to keep plowing ahead. Payroll processor ADP said Thursday that the hiring primarily came from companies with fewer than 500 employees_which accounted for more than 75 percent of the jobs added last month. Total hiring is […]

[Alert] VA in “critical condition”, warns VA Secretary Schulkin

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is warning the VA is “still in critical condition” despite efforts to reduce wait times for medical appointments and expand care in the private sector. In a “State of the VA” report, the physician on Wednesday pointed to decades of disrepair and bloated bureaucracy in offering a blunt diagnosis: “There […]

Hawaii suing three MAJOR auto manufacturers

Hawaii is suing auto manufacturers Ford, Nissan and Toyota over air bags that can spew shrapnel when they deploy. The complaint filed Wednesday says the manufacturers knew or should have known for more than a decade that air bags installed in their cars posed serious and sometimes fatal danger. The automakers used air bags made […]

Here is the highest paid CEO in your state

Here are the top-paid CEOs by state for 2016, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The survey considered only publicly traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that filed their proxy statements with federal regulators between Jan. 1 and May 1. It includes CEOs who have been […]