From the WaPo: The state\u2019s fiscal woes have prompted serious concern from ratings agencies like Moody\u2019s, which\u00a0said\u00a0recently that the state\u2019s economy through the next year \u201cwill likely remain muted given recent tax revenue trends and our expectation that the state\u2019s economic recovery will lag the U.S,\u201d as the New Jersey Record reports. The revenue shortfalls […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Walter Russell Mead on Californians and public pensions: What makes this all very much worse from the unions\u2019 point of view is that if (and when) a truly major and prolonged statewide budget emergency comes, attitudes are likely to harden against them even more. When voters \u201cget\u201d just how much of a tradeoff they face […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Pat Caddell: Why? \u00a0Some Republicans are worried that the fight over Obamacare distracts from the issue of the economy. What these Republicans fail to realize is that healthcare and the economy are inextricably linked; Americans now realize that Obamacare was a detour on the road to economic recovery, so to remind them of one is […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n