Mining taxpayers pockets for private-pension relief on September 12, 2016 After eight years of the Obama administration’s antagonism toward mining, the industry and its workers clearly need some relief. The Miners Protection Act of 2015—sponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and co-sponsored by eight Republicans—would bail out the underfunded pension plan of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The bill has […]
The pay-equity police get new ammunition on April 17, 2016Feminists have something new to celebrate on April 12 this year. That’s the date they have dubbed “Equal Pay Day,” when they claim that women’s earnings have finally caught up to men’s earnings from the year before. Each April activists hold demonstrations and call on Congress to pass the misguided Paycheck Fairness Act. The legislation […]