As many as 117,000 Americans simultaneously collect unemployment benefits and federal disability each year, a form of double-dipping that investigators say costs taxpayers $850 million annually and should be ended. To understand why such "double-dipping" constitutes...
Politics
Big Money in Freon Smuggling
I love stories like this; Government run amok. The chief executive of the century-old company from America’s heartland shifted nervously on the witness stand here as he tried to explain how a trusted senior vice president had been caught on a wiretap buying half a...
Teachers’ Unions vs. Children
When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children. -- Albert Shanker, former president of the United Federation of Teachers I wrote about this before, how the truth is that CTU, WEAC, and all other...
Illinois – 4th Worst Legal Climate for Business
Illinois, along with California, Louisiana, Mississippi and West Virginia, are among the worst states in the country for businesses because of their legal climates, according to survey of corporate attorneys released Monday. Two Illinois counties did not fare well in...