Non-partisan solutions for America BY DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN It’s a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department’s July jobs figures showed that employers added 163,000 new workers last month. That exceeds what most forecasters were predicting. But it’s only […]
For Labor Day weekend, American consumers in 45 states will likely see the highest fuel prices they’ve ever seen at this time of year. Only motorists in Alaska, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming will be spared from record-high prices at the pump. “The average motorist will be laboring a bit more to pay for […]
BY CANDACE RIVERA Congressional Candidate Joe Carvin has some high numbered estimates when it comes to our nation’s debt. Our current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stands at just over $15 trillion. Before the year is over we will reach the national debt ceiling of $16.395 trillion. Our debt will soon surpass our GDP which is the […]
Legendary publisher of the Rockland County Times Armand Miele retires his longtime column “Miele’s Musing.” Read the final “Miele’s Musing” BY ARMAND MIELE When I became involved with the Rockland County Times in the 1990s, I was an old man. I was born during the Depression in a poor neighborhood, saw my brothers drafted into […]
Below are the federal income tax rates that went into effect under Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, and remained in place for over 30 years. Roosevelt’s tax rates kept America in the Depression until he got us into World War II. He knew the Japanese were planning to attack Pearl Harbor, but did not even […]
Editor, Whoever the Republicans pick to run for president had better realize that they will be running against the hardcore Communist Party that has taken over the Democratic Party and now runs the White House and a good part of both houses of Congress. Whoever denies this is living in a dream world and had […]