Monica Potts

In a New York Times story over the weekend, Tea Party folks mulled over what would happen if their volunteers started to get jobs again, since so many joined after they lost their jobs during the recession. It becomes clear that the activists were not only upset about being forced into retirement but also their […]

Bart Stupak is among the Democratic representatives who are reportedly receiving threats in the wake of the health-care bill’s passage, some from anti-abortion groups he says he believes are from outside his district. Stupak says his offices have been overwhelmed by phone calls, most of them from outside his congressional district, and some of them […]

It’s just shocking that it’s happening so soon. Sen. Chuck Grassley is sending e-mails trumpeting a component of the health-care reform bill he ultimately voted against. ‘The health-care legislation signed into law yesterday includes provisions Grassley co-authored to impose standards for the tax exemption of charitable hospitals for the first time,’ he said. ‘The provisions […]

A new report has found that female representation among tenured professors in the sciences and math at universities remains stubbornly out of proportion to the number of women who obtain high-level degrees. Researchers credit it to bias against women who apply for those jobs. From The New York Times: The report found ample evidence of […]

Over at The Wonk Room. Pat Garofalo notes that Chief Justice John Roberts‘ line of questioning in a case involving the National Labor Relations Board shows that he wonders why President Obama hasn’t made a recess appointment. Obama’s nominee, Craig Becker couldn’t get the 60 votes required to break a Republican filibuster. A recess appointment […]

For some time now, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has urged an extension of a provision of the stimulus bill that allowed welfare funds to fully or partially subsidize the wages of low-income workers who are newly hired by private employers. The fund, known as the TANF Emergency Fund, is set to expire […]

The health-care bill that will be signed by President Obama shortly also includes a provision that will require restaurants with more than 20 locations to place the calorie information for foods on menus so that the information is easy to see while customers order, the Associated Press tells us. New York City was the first […]

Now that the health-care reform bill will most likely be signed into law soon, many are trying to figure out what it means for them. The New York Times has plenty of graphs up to break it down, but a great blog called the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, run by Daniel Schwartz, explains what it […]

I am trying to institute a pretty strict policy against blogging about Megan McArdle, since it seems like a never-ending rabbit hole of nonsense and false logic, but her response after the House passed the Senate version of the health-care bill last night was a special sort of ridiculousness. The entire post was histrionic and […]