Facts:
“Almost 46 percent of children living in female headed single parent families were in poverty in contrast to only 9.5 percent of children in married couple families…” (Source: Where’s the Outrage? Robert Doar)
Context:
The poverty rate for children raised in the U.S. by single parents (46%) is higher than the overall poverty rate in Rwanda (44.9%). The…
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Political Rhetoric
"By almost every measure, the American economy, the American workers are better off than when I took office," [President Obama] added. "We're better off by almost every measure." (Source: New York Daily News, 9/1/2014)
Economic Reality
• “The labor force participation rate is well below what CBO estimates would be achieved if the demand for…
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Then: Hard Drives Unrecoverable
When asked earlier this week if there were any data or hardware crashes similar to Lois Lerner’s with other IRS employees pertinent to the investigation, IRS Deputy CIO informed the Committee that there were, and listed six other IRS employees, including Nikole Flax, former Chief of Staff to the Acting IRS Commissioner, whose hard drives had crashed and…
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First, Democrats promised their trillion-dollar stimulus plan would create millions of jobs. It didn’t.
Democrat projection of job creation after 2009 stimulus: +3.675 million (through December 2010)
Actual change in jobs after 2009 stimulus: -2.530 million (through December 2010, or 6.2 million fewer jobs than projected)
Next, Democrats promised…
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According to data from the Department of Labor, the U.S. has spent an estimated $26.0 billion in error on Federal extended Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits since the temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program was created in July 2008. Given the record scale of the EUC program, this is in all likelihood the largest amount of misspending under any such temporary…
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The Federal Extended Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program expired in December, after providing record amounts of financial assistance to over 24 million long-term unemployed individuals. History shows the EUC program provided for record weeks of unemployment benefits per person (a total of up to 99 weeks of all UI benefits in many states, far eclipsing the norm of up to 52…
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“Economists say there is absolutely no evidence that part time work is going up. In fact, it’s going down. The height was in the recession. It’s going down.” (Secretary Sebelius, The Daily Show, October 7, 2013)
The Facts: Part Time Workers Are Up, Not Down
June 2009 (the last month and highest level of the…
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Over the weekend, Minority Leader Pelosi (D-CA) made the false claim that there is not a single area where Congress can find savings to reduce the deficit, "Because the cupboard is bare. There's no more cuts to make," Pelosi said on CNN's "State of the Union." She added, "It's really important that people understand that.”
Really? Not a single area of spending…
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In a June 2013 response to the Ways and Means Committee, the IRS identified 65 million documents potentially responsive to the IRS-Tea Party investigation. After Chairman Camp and Ranking Member Levin sent a letter to IRS pressing the agency to expedite their document production, the IRS revised their original estimate down to 460,000 responsive documents. This revised estimate…
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