A seven member panel selected Indiana’s first female chief justice today. Justice Loretta Rush was selected to lead the Indiana Supreme Court. All of the Court’s sitting members were seeking the appointment. Rush will manage the day-to-day operations of Indiana’s highest court. As the Huffington Post writes: The Indiana judiciary has struggled with gender diversity….
Undocumented workers are not eligible to receive Social Security benefits, but a new report shows that they paid over $100 billion into the program over the past decade. Unauthorized workers are paying an estimated $13 billion a year in Social Security taxes and only getting around $1 billion back, according to a senior government statistician….
Increasing income inequality is hindering U.S. economic growth and weakening the country’s ability to recover from the Great Recession, according to a new analysis by the financial services agency Standard & Poor’s. The report released Tuesday incorporates data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and the International…
Indiana Governor Mike Pence sent an open letter to President Obama last week, demanding the immediate deportation of children seeking refugee status in the United States. The Department of Health and Human Services has placed over 200 of these children with sponsors in Indiana. Pence complains that HHS did not notify his office and that…
The US economy added 209,000 new jobs in July, according to a new report from the Labor Department. Despite the jobs growth, the unemployment rate edged up 0.1 points to 6.2 percent. However, the unemployment rate has fallen 1.1 percentage points over the past twelve months. The Labor Department reports that 9.7 million people remain…
The Central Intelligence Agency admitted on Thursday to spying on members of Congress and their staff. An internal report from the CIA Inspector General’s Office concluded “that some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between SSCI (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) and the CIA in 2009,” a CIA spokesman…
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to sue President Barack Obama. The vote comes in the middle of an election year where base voters are expected to drive turnout in the historically low-turnout midterm elections. The vote was 225 to 201 in favor of the lawsuit. Five Republicans voted against it. No Democrats…
President Obama delivered a speech on the economy today from Kansas City. The president was in high spirits as he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd. The atmosphere was that of campaign season, flanked with a diverse crowd of dozens of young people on stage. The energetic president had good reason to be happy. The Commerce…
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg sat down for a trio of interviews with local television stations this morning. The mayor, who is currently deployed in Afghanistan for a six month tour, took to Skype to talk about his experiences in uniform and show his appreciation for the city’s leaders to fill in his shoes while…
President Obama delivered a statement from the White House on Tuesday regarding the situation in Ukraine. The president accused Russia of launching artillery strikes into sovereign Ukrainian territory. The president’s remarks were delivered two days after the US government released satellite images purporting to show Russian rockets being fired into Ukraine. The Obama administration is…
