Many benefit programs have gone high tech with debit cards and J.P. Morgan Chase and others are making a pretty penny charging users fees. What is there to be done?
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Shocking Moment of Sanity Occurs in Congress
Could the GOP have finally learned its lesson?
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Republicans Are Really, Really Bad at Hostage Negotiations
If you’re Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi, another fight over the debt ceiling actually looks like a great idea.
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Defense Spending Is the Most Expensive Way to Create Jobs
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter costs as much as $8 million for every job created.
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Conservative Anger Over Budget Deal Now Purely to Save Face
The Tea Party may not be irrelevant, but for the moment they’ve been defanged.
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Robbing Illinois’s Public Employees
Detroit’s bankruptcy and a new state law have gutted public-employee pensions—that’s likely to become the new norm. Â
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The Vindictiveness of the Vitter Amendment
A suggested provision in the farm bill would leave ex-offenders without access to food stamps.Â
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The Democrats’ Original Food-Stamp Sin
November 1 saw a rollback of food assistance for the neediest Americans. The left shares just as much blame for the cuts as Republicans.Â
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Why Are Police Shootings of Innocents on the Rise?
Budget shortfalls have left police departments without the funds to properly train officers on using their firearms.
