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Local Government Employment: Falling But Still Higher than It Was

The past five years have been an era of austerity in local government employment. In some states, as I...

In a column last week, I told you that Room Eight New York Politics was celebrating its ninth birthday...

Late last year (11/12/2014), I published part one of what was supposed to be a two-parter. If you go...

The Federal Reserve’s Z1 data on American debt (public and private) is out for 2014, http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/ and I took...

Two and a half years ago, a study reported that the death rate among non-Hispanic White women age 18...

According to a recently released report, from the “liberal” (as described by Crain’s New York Business) Institute on Taxation...

Critics finally have something now to talk about. The Republican Congress is surely going to launch an investigation into...

It has been one of my recurring themes that just two kinds of people have been getting richer in...

I haven’t done this since 2009, so lets take a look and see how federal, state and local government...

It seems like he is finally back-tracking. But America, meet the Rudy Giuliani that New Yorkers were all too...