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Deficits Up, Unemployment Up
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RealClearMarkets.com, 07-29-10
President Obama's Mid-Session Review, an update of the Budget published by the Office of Management and Budget in February, shows that the deficit is
increasing and unemployment will remain high for years to come.
What Judge Bolton's Injunction Doesn't Say
Heather Mac Donald NRO, 07-28-10
In enjoining Arizona’s landmark immigration law, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton maintains the Obama administration’s carefully cultivated fiction:
that what concerns the White House regarding S.B. 1070 is its effect on legal, rather than illegal, aliens.
The Arizona Lesson
Heather Mac Donald City Journal Online, 07-27-10
As the start date of Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070, approaches, the Los Angeles Times has published an article on a nearly three-month-old
homicide in Phoenix that no one but the victim’s family claims had anything to do with Arizona’s immigration initiative—not the Hispanic neighbors of
the alleged killer and his victim, not the police, not even illegal-alien advocacy groups.
The Age of Subsidized Rental Housing
Steven Malanga RealClearMarkets.com, 07-28-10
The massive Dodd-Frank bill has only a little to say about the housing market. It offers no substantial solutions for the problems of Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac and makes only minor modifications to the home mortgage business.
Making Second Chance Act Work For More Former Prisoners
Howard Husock Washington Examiner, 07-28-10
Last week, the same day that the Senate Judiciary Committee began considering whether and how to extent the Second Chance Act -- designed to better the odds
that the 700,000 prisoners released annually will not wind up back behind bars -- the Justice Department's inspector general released a pointed reminder
about the limits of the program's good intentions.
How Much Do UI Extensions Matter for Unemployment?
Josh Barro National Review Online, 07-27-10
James Pethokoukis of Reuters flags a blog post at the Atlanta Fed, highlighting Fed research on how UI benefit extensions have affected the unemployment rate.
Making New York City More Efficient
Josh Barro RealClearMarkets.com, 07-27-10
New York City's public offices have 8,000 vacant desks, roughly 11% of the workstations in the city government's 19 million square feet of office space.
Ross Douthat and the Fight Against Cap-and-Trade
Jim Manzi NRO's The Corner, 07-26-10
Ross Douthat has a column in today’s New York Times in which he kindly mentions me, but far more important, manages to make a multi-layered argument
for why an informed rational observer should oppose cap-and-trade legislation (within the length restrictions of an op-ed).
Empire of Silence
Andrew Klavan City Journal Online, 07-26-10
A personal incident has given me a particular perspective on recent news about the media. Last Tuesday, I received word that the French release of my
thriller novel Empire of Lies had been canceled by publisher Seuil Policiers.
The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb
Steven Malanga RealClearPolitics, 07-26-10 (This article was adapted from the summer issue of City Journal and linked on
RealClearMarkets.com, 7-26-10)
In the early 1970s, New Jersey officials decided to build a sports facility in the Meadowlands, the state’s wetlands just outside New York City.
Don't Bank on NYC's 'Early' Recovery
Nicole Gelinas New York Post, 07-26-10
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported last week that Gotham's economy is back.
The Shield We Need
Judith Miller New York Daily News, 07-25-10
The war on terrorism has been anything but quiet lately here on its western front. The Washington Post concluded in a seminal investigation this week
that the top-secret world the government has created in response to 9/11 has become so secretive and unwieldy that no one knows how large it is, what it
does or how effective its programs are.
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The base salaries and total wages, including overtime, of 409,878 individuals employed by the New York City government during 2009 are now searchable
at 
Decisions that hinge on the relative teacher salaries in New Jersey should be informed by honest calculations of how much teachers actually earn
relative to other workers, writes Marcus Winters. Given an equal number of hours worked, teachers earn salaries comparable to those of many
professionals in New Jersey.
