Housing Finance Interference
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 121 Current Event From the Making Homes Affordable website: The Making Home Affordable © (MHA) Program is a critical part of the Obama Administration’s broad strategy to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, stabilize the country’s housing market, and improve the nation’s economy. Homeowners can lower their monthly mortgage payments and [...]
Tax Code and The Debt Ceiling
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 101 Current Event According to the New York Times on January 25, 2011(full article available online) Melbourne Apartments is a new 84-unit building in Des Moines, Iowa, where a three-bedroom apartment rents for $775 a month but comes with restrictions — a family of five, for example, can earn [...]
Job Creation Formula. The 3 C’s = Jobs
RECENT HEADLINE: Employers added 216,000 jobs in the private sector. Net loss of 14,000 in government jobs across the nation (McClatchy News Service). Lets take a look at what I call, The 3 C’s of Job Creation: Confidence, Capitalism and Conservatism. The Simple Variable of Confidence in the Equation. This 10 letter word is grossly underestimated at times, [...]
WI Dept. of Workforce Development Sends Mixed Signals on Growth of WI’s Economy
Download PAI Summary & Analysis of WI Dept. of Workforce Development Report PAI PAI WI Dept. of Workforce Development Sends Mixed Signals on the Growth and Stability of the State’s Economy The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development released a report indicating that unemployment in Wisconsin decreased from 7.8 percent in October to 7.6 percent in [...]
The New Agenda for Wisconsin’s New Government
On November 2, 2010, the Republican Party gained control of the governorship and both houses of the State Legislature for the first time since 2003. In addition, Republican Kurt Schuller defeated incumbent State Treasurer, Dawn Marie Sass, and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen was easily reelected. The only Democratic state official to survive the Republican [...]
POLICY SNAP SHOT: WI Dept Revenue Report Indicates WI Economy Growing
Download Policy Snap-Shot Vol. 1 No. 4: WI Dept. Of Revenue Indicates State’s Economy Growing Issue Highlights SECTION 1 The Department of Revenue indicated that 24,500 jobs have been created since January 2010. The manufacturing sector, long the driving force of the state economy, has been the leading source of the employment boom. With the [...]
Doyle’s Approval Ratings at All-Time Low
The Wisconsin Survey Center, an offshoot of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Department, finds that Governor Jim Doyle’s approval rating has plummeted by eight points in the last six months. In February 2010, Governor Doyle’s approval rating stood at a paltry 46%, but by July 2010, his approval rating had dipped to an all-time [...]
Congress Debates Creation of Value Added Tax
The U.S. House of Representatives is currently debating legislation that would create a “value added tax.” The value added tax is a tax collected by retailers on all goods and services sold. If passed, it would further cripple the retail market, diminish consumer confidence and consumer buying power, and lay more taxes on already-overtaxed citizens. [...]
