Image Credit: Joe Biden | Facebook The Center Square [By Casey Harper] – A coalition of states has filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s latest executive effort to forgive a portion of Americans’ student loan debt. The lawsuit comes after Biden on Monday announced the plan, which the states in question say is […]
Image Credit: American Legislative Exchange Council The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee ranks 12th in the new economic outlook rankings from the American Legislative Exchange Council. The annual rankings from ALEC – an organization favoring limited government, free markets and federalism – rank states on 15 state policy categories including gross domestic product, […]
POTATUS polling news must be bad – as in GAWDAWFUL – because the administration announced another one of their “waves” of student debt loan “forgiveness” this morning. After taking a quick peek at a couple just to be sure which way the wind is blowing…welp. It’s not pretty if you’re Biden. According to the RealClearPolitics […]
Fed chairman to testify before Congress this week. Image: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] – The U.S. began adding $1 trillion worth of debt about every three months beginning last June, a Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett first pointed out in an investment note published last […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee schools saw an 18.4% increase in inflation-adjusted per student funding between 2002 and 2020, according to a new report. Spending on employee benefits increased by 56.5% over the same period, according to Reason Foundation’s Education Spending Across 50 States report. Tennessee spent $1,992 per […]
Most of the recent public discussions of debt cancellation have dealt with Joe Biden’s seemingly endless efforts to “erase” student debt. In Connecticut, Democratic Governor Ted Lamont appears to be taking a page from the Biden playbook and applying it to a different type of debt. He announced this week that the state would be […]
Image Credit: Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Nearly 200,000 debt collection cases were filed in Shelby County and 112,000 in Davidson County between January 2016 through March 2023, according to data from Sycamore Institute. The nonpartisan public policy institute looked at the number and type of debt […]
San Francisco ended 2023 with the highest commercial real estate vacancy rate in the city’s history. San Francisco’s amount of vacant office space has reached the highest level ever recorded in the city’s history. According to preliminary fourth quarter data provided by real estate brokerage CBRE, the city’s vacancy rate ticked up nearly 2 percentage […]
NEWS AND OPINION: “The national debt is headed towards record levels,” warns the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group committed in its mission statement to educating the public on fiscal policy. They’ve got the numbers. “In May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that debt would grow by $22.1 trillion over ten […]
WITH anti-Semitism a worsening blight on Britain, the Prayer Book ‘For the Epistle’ reading for today, the last Sunday before Advent, is a powerful reminder that the Saviour of the world is the ultimate Davidic King. Normally, the Epistle reading is from the New Testament, but in the run-up to Advent Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), […]
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