Unemployment
Business & Economics
Plundering California
The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans are struggling to pay the bills, but one class of Americans is doing quite well: government workers. Their pay levels are soaring, they enjoy unmatched benefits, and they remain largely immune from layoffs, except for some overly publicized ...
Business & Economics
Stimulus spending fails on jobs front
The White House recently announced the results of its stimulus package, billed as instrumental in averting a second Great Depression. In reality, the stimulus has been a profligate flop, even if we take the administration’s numbers at face value. The Web site Recovery.gov breaks down stimulus expenditures and the reported ...
Commentary
Condition Serious but Not Hopeless
An NRO Symposium Harry Reid scored a victory Saturday night. And part of the line of argument from those urging that senators vote against the motion to proceed Saturday night was: The bill is not likely to get better from here on in. So is it over? Abortion, high costs ...
Business & Economics
People vote for freedom with their feet and effort
“Why are they all running to Colorado? What have they got down there that we haven’t got?” So asks a villain in Ayn Rand’s, “Atlas Shrugged.” He complains about Colorado’s primitive, lazy government that “does nothing outside of keeping law courts and a police department.” A young worker answers, “Maybe ...
Commentary
Truly a turkey
‘Reform’ bill stuffed with costs Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant turkey of a health-care bill. At 2,074 pages and more than 370,000 words, it’s officially “scored” as costing $849 billion over 10 years — $400 million per page, or $2.3 million per ...
Business & Economics
NY suer system stinks
New York Post, November 18, 2009 Report: Legal costs rob economy of $16B New York’s court system is among the most lawsuit-friendly in the country — socking citizens with millions of dollars in wacky jury awards, higher taxes and increased costs of insurance and health care, a study released yesterday ...
Business & Economics
To Revive New York’s Economy, Attack Lawsuit Abuse
New York’s unemployment rate is hovering near 9% – the highest in more than a decade. Meanwhile, almost 12% of Empire State homeowners are late on their mortgages or in foreclosure. From 1997 through 2007, the number of jobs in New York increased only 8%, ranking the state 36th. During ...
Business & Economics
New Independent Study Finds That New York’s Legal System is Among the Worst in the Nation
(ALBANY) A new study of New York’s legal system conducted by Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a nationally known research firm, has concluded that New York’s legal system is the third worst in the country and is costing taxpayers millions of dollars through higher taxes and increased costs for goods, insurance ...
Business & Economics
An Empire Disaster: Why New York’s Tort System is Broken and How to Fix It
(ALBANY) A new study of New York’s legal system conducted by Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a nationally known research firm, has concluded that New York’s legal system is the third worst in the country and is costing taxpayers millions of dollars through higher taxes and increased costs for goods, insurance ...
Business & Economics
Study: NY Legal System 3rd Worst In U.S.
North Country Gazette (Albany, NY), November 17, 2009 ReadMedia, November 17, 2009 ALBANY—A new study of New York’s legal system conducted by Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a nationally known research firm, has concluded that New York’s legal system is the third worst in the country and is costing taxpayers millions ...
Plundering California
The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans are struggling to pay the bills, but one class of Americans is doing quite well: government workers. Their pay levels are soaring, they enjoy unmatched benefits, and they remain largely immune from layoffs, except for some overly publicized ...
Stimulus spending fails on jobs front
The White House recently announced the results of its stimulus package, billed as instrumental in averting a second Great Depression. In reality, the stimulus has been a profligate flop, even if we take the administration’s numbers at face value. The Web site Recovery.gov breaks down stimulus expenditures and the reported ...
Condition Serious but Not Hopeless
An NRO Symposium Harry Reid scored a victory Saturday night. And part of the line of argument from those urging that senators vote against the motion to proceed Saturday night was: The bill is not likely to get better from here on in. So is it over? Abortion, high costs ...
People vote for freedom with their feet and effort
“Why are they all running to Colorado? What have they got down there that we haven’t got?” So asks a villain in Ayn Rand’s, “Atlas Shrugged.” He complains about Colorado’s primitive, lazy government that “does nothing outside of keeping law courts and a police department.” A young worker answers, “Maybe ...
Truly a turkey
‘Reform’ bill stuffed with costs Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant turkey of a health-care bill. At 2,074 pages and more than 370,000 words, it’s officially “scored” as costing $849 billion over 10 years — $400 million per page, or $2.3 million per ...
NY suer system stinks
New York Post, November 18, 2009 Report: Legal costs rob economy of $16B New York’s court system is among the most lawsuit-friendly in the country — socking citizens with millions of dollars in wacky jury awards, higher taxes and increased costs of insurance and health care, a study released yesterday ...
To Revive New York’s Economy, Attack Lawsuit Abuse
New York’s unemployment rate is hovering near 9% – the highest in more than a decade. Meanwhile, almost 12% of Empire State homeowners are late on their mortgages or in foreclosure. From 1997 through 2007, the number of jobs in New York increased only 8%, ranking the state 36th. During ...
New Independent Study Finds That New York’s Legal System is Among the Worst in the Nation
(ALBANY) A new study of New York’s legal system conducted by Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a nationally known research firm, has concluded that New York’s legal system is the third worst in the country and is costing taxpayers millions of dollars through higher taxes and increased costs for goods, insurance ...
An Empire Disaster: Why New York’s Tort System is Broken and How to Fix It
(ALBANY) A new study of New York’s legal system conducted by Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a nationally known research firm, has concluded that New York’s legal system is the third worst in the country and is costing taxpayers millions of dollars through higher taxes and increased costs for goods, insurance ...
Study: NY Legal System 3rd Worst In U.S.
North Country Gazette (Albany, NY), November 17, 2009 ReadMedia, November 17, 2009 ALBANY—A new study of New York’s legal system conducted by Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a nationally known research firm, has concluded that New York’s legal system is the third worst in the country and is costing taxpayers millions ...
