Facts Are Stubborn Things
Facts: “Almost 46 percent of children living in female headed single parent families were in poverty in contrast to only…
Read More (U.S. Child Poverty Rates by Family Structure in Context)Political Rhetoric “By almost every measure, the American economy, the American workers are better off than when I took office,”…
Read More (“By Almost Every Measure,” Economic Reality Tells a Different Story than the President’s Rosy Rhetoric)Then: Hard Drives UnrecoverableWhen asked earlier this week if there were any data or hardware crashes similar to Lois Lerner’s…
Read More (Koskinen: Please Ignore the Hard Drive on Ms. Flax’s Laptop)First, Democrats promised their trillion-dollar stimulus plan would create millions of jobs. It didn’t. Democrat projection of job creation after…
Read More (Reviewing Democrat Promises on Jobs and Unemployment Benefits)According to data from the Department of Labor, the U.S. has spent an estimated $26.0 billion in error on Federal…
Read More (Recent Erroneous Extended UI Benefits Almost Match All Extended Benefits Paid after 2001 Recession and Terrorist Attacks)The Federal Extended Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program expired in December, after providing record amounts of financial assistance to over 24…
Read More (EUC History Lesson)“Economists say there is absolutely no evidence that part time work is going up. In fact, it’s going down. The…
Read More (Is Part-Time Work “Going Down,” as Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius Says?)Over the weekend, Minority Leader Pelosi (D-CA) made the false claim that there is not a single area where Congress…
Read More (Fact Check Pelosi: “There’s No More Cuts to Make”)In a June 2013 response to the Ways and Means Committee, the IRS identified 65 million documents potentially responsive to…
Read More (IRS: It Wasn’t Less Than 1%, It Was 3%!)Tea Party Progressives On a BOLO Yes Yes Had donors threatened Yes No evidence Had confidential information leaked Yes…
Read More (Being on a BOLO is Different than Being Targeted and Abused by the IRS)