Tag: Joseph Lawler

The Pentagon tops PR spending, averaging $630 million a year, the Government Accountability Office found. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Feds spend $1.5 billion a year on PR, watchdog finds

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2016 8:51 pm

Hillary Clinton may not be done rolling out proposals for middle-class tax relief. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Clinton still working on plan for middle-class taxes

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2016 8:25 pm

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley has been speaking on the Senate floor against the Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch for more than 5 hours. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Payday critics cry foul on pro-industry comments to agency

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2016 5:22 pm

Companies that issue prepaid cards will have to provide new consumer protections, consumer bureau says. (AP Photo/Swayne B. Hall)

New rules coming for increasingly popular prepaid cards

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2016 4:34 am

"The only thing Donald Trump and I have said about Social Security is: We're going to meet our obligations to our seniors. That's it," Mike Pence said Tuesday night. (AP Photo)

Pence spells out no-changes stance on Social Security

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2016 2:14 am

High-ranking economists are unanimous: Donald Trump's plan to tax the products of companies that move operations out of the U.S. is a bad idea. (AP Photo)

Top economists unanimously reject Trump’s ‘Oreo Tax’

Joseph Lawler · October 4, 2016 9:11 pm

On Friday, the Commerce Department issues the first estimate of how the U.S. economy performed in the April-June quarter. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

New Fed research blames demographics for ‘new normal’ of slow growth

Joseph Lawler · October 3, 2016 6:16 pm

Registered Democratic professors outnumber Republican ones nearly 12 to 1 at leading U.S. universities, according to new research. (iStock Photo)

Growing university gap: Democratic professors now outnumber Republicans nearly 12 to 1 in top fields

Joseph Lawler · October 3, 2016 2:55 pm

Janet Yellen is avoiding commenting on the presidential election or its implications for markets. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fed ignoring election risks

Joseph Lawler · October 1, 2016 12:01 am

Sen. David Perdue said that there needed to be "severe consequences" if Congress fails to pass a budget. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republican’s idea for forcing a budget: Docking staffers’ and members’ pay

Joseph Lawler · September 30, 2016 4:01 am

Lawmakers touted the estimate, up from $2.3 trillion in 2012, as evidence of the need for tax reform. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Untaxed offshore earnings of US companies rises to $2.6 trillion

Joseph Lawler · September 29, 2016 9:34 pm

"I have come to the conclusion that Wells Fargo should be broken up," Maxine Waters said. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Top Democrat calls for breaking up Wells Fargo

Joseph Lawler · September 29, 2016 6:23 pm