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- Trump Aide Picks Very Public Fight With Moderate Republican After Verdict - Larry Hogan, a Republican Senate candidate in Maryland, asked voters to ‘respect’ Trump’s hush-money verdict—a sentiment Trump’s campaign team didn’t take kindly to. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-aide-picks-very-public-fight-with-moderate-republican-after-verdict 50 comments politics
- These oilsands companies raked in $35B last year. Now, they’re asking for public money to help fight climate change https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/03/10/oil-companies-make-record-profits-but-still-want-help-paying-for-climate-change-plan.html 27 comments environment
- Clean Energy Tax Credits Are Broken—and That’s How Joe Manchin Likes It | “Direct pay” would make more efficient use of public money and speed up renewable energy investment. But Manchin doesn’t want that. https://newrepublic.com/article/166856/joe-manchins-quest-keep-clean-energy-tax-credits-broken 11 comments environment
- U.S. Supreme Court backs public money for religious schools https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-backs-public-money-religious-schools-maine-case-2022-06-21/ 52 comments politics
- Congress allocated $19 billion in federal stimulus money to Texas public education, but schools have yet to see an extra dime https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/07/texas-schools-stimulus-funding/ 9 comments politics
- If it is public money, it should be public code as well. I support this call for more public code under a Free Software licence: https://publiccode.eu/ 57 comments programming
- George Soros: ‘Brexit hurts both sides – my money was used to educate the British public’ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/02/george-soros-brexit-hurts-both-sides-money-educate-british-public 3 comments europe
- Charter schools are big business. Who's making money off public education? https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2018/08/22/arizona-charter-schools-public-education-funding/1013468002/ 32 comments politics
- Blake Farenthold owes the public $84,000. Where’s our money? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/blake-farenthold-owes-the-public-84000-wheres-our-money/2018/04/18/e977fd64-428d-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html 108 comments politics
- Kansas lawmaker says he would rather give money to North Korea than to public radio http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/capitol-report/2017/sep/6/lawmaker-says-he-would-rather-give-money/ 4 comments politics
- Jeb Bush is convincing donors the polls are wrong: His team is selling a Trump vs. Bush vision that relies on big-money backers ignoring public data. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/jeb-bush-donors-polls-216436 14 comments politics
- Rep. Aaron Schock, who announced his resignation today under suspicion of misusing public money, will be eligible for more of it in retirement. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/aaron-schock-pension_n_6889192.html?utm_hp_ref=politics 4 comments politics
- The Rundfunkbeitrag and German public broadcasting is wasting our money http://www.rundfunkbeitrag.de/service/organisation/ 87 comments germany
- A public space telescope may be launched but it needs money, help them out this will be amazing! http://sourcefednews.com/worlds-first-public-space-telescope/ 3 comments space
- Her money: dad’s silent answer to blast - Shunning publicity, father of girl killed by bakery bomb uses ‘compensation’ to help poor students http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130429/jsp/frontpage/story_16839584.jsp 3 comments india
- Yet Another Charter School Using Public Money To Enrich Its CEO http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/yet-another-charter-school-using-publ 3 comments politics
- BANKER ON HOW TO SOLVE DEBT CRISIS: The Public Needs To Work Harder For Less Money And 50% Fewer Benefits http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2011/03/banker-on-how-to-solve-debt-crisis.html 25 comments economy
- The Awful Truth about the public option is that without it we will spend a lot more taxpayer money on reform in what amounts to a gigantic bailout of insurance companies. http://www.osborneink.com/2009/10/awful-truth-about-public-option.html 5 comments politics
- Sanders Report Details Plot by Right-Wing Billionaires to 'Sabotage' Public Education | "Instead of siphoning money and increasing tax breaks to subsidize private education, we have a responsibility to ensure all students have access to quality K-12 education." https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaires-public-education 21 comments politics
- The President* Will Stop at Nothing to Keep the Public From Finding Out How He Made His Money -- Here's another subject for discussion during the impeachment hearings. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27227471/president-trump-business-documents-lawsuit-secret-tax-returns/ 74 comments politics
- The White House says NFL teams should stop getting public money for new stadiums http://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-sanders-nfl-tax-breaks-public-funding-football-stadiums-2017-10 42 comments politics
- Shaq has made significantly more money as an investor than a basketball player. He now owns 150 car washes, 155 Five Guys restaurants, 40 24-Hour Fitness gyms, and invested in Google before they went public. http://thehustle.co/shaq-is-a-heck-of-an-investor 403 comments sports
- Top 10 Reasons for Higher Taxes on the Top 1% | "Funding for our country's children is being cut, but we allow a hedge fund manager to make enough money to pay the salaries of every public school teacher in New York City. Most of his earnings are taxed at a rate less than that of his secretary." http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/02-8 26 comments politics
- ...she provided compelling evidence that hedge funds actively short the shares of companies they loan money to directly before the announcement of the loan becomes public and directly before the loan covenants are violated and the terms are made more negative. http://www.johnstanderfer.com/?p=79 3 comments business
- [Las Vegas Locally] Nevada legislators are willing to give the Oakland Athletics $320 MILLION in public money to build a new ballpark on the Strip, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1659338103377780738?s=20 39 comments baseball
- The Reform Law Needed to Counter Citizens United: H.R. 1 - The flood of big money in politics unleashed by the Supreme Court keeps growing. Public campaign financing offers candidates a way to run without chasing megadonors https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/reform-law-needed-counter-citizens-united-hr-1 7 comments politics
- How dark-money donors find accomplices in the gov't "Republicans even blocked investigating three instances of blatant rule-skirting from the 2012 presidential election, including one in which a Mitt Romney associate admitted he donated $1 million to a shadow corporation in order to avoid publicity" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dark-money-donors-accomplices-in-the-government/2016/04/11/1125437e-fb75-11e5-80e4-c381214de1a3_story.html 3 comments politics
- The US government funds nearly 2/3 of all healthcare costs, and spends more public money per capita than any other nation. http://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/january/government-funds-nearly-two-thirds-of-us-health-care-costs-american-journal-of-pub 24 comments politics
- Dammit, Reddit. I'm sick of saying this: The U.S. spends just as much money on public healthcare as Western European nations. (And has even more private spending on top of that). http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/a0934554.html 3 comments politics
- A case of discrimination - If a Christian group denies non-Christian and gay students from joining it, then it should not get money from a publicly financed university. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/opinion/19mon2.html 60 comments politics
- New York City to spend $20 million on security guards at private and religious schools - "...which notes that the city could have found better ways to spend taxpayer dollars and that public money has no business being used to help private and religious schools." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/12/07/new-york-city-to-spend-20-million-on-security-guards-at-private-and-religious-schools/ 68 comments politics
- Kerry to Wall Street: Put your money behind your climate PR: Kerry is leveraging personal relationships with Wall Street players as well as banks’ public promises to help fund climate efforts. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/12/kerry-to-wall-street-put-your-money-behind-your-climate-pr-475565 4 comments politics
- James Pearce: Liverpool unveil plans for new Anfield Road End. 7,000 extra seats to boost capacity to 61,000. Scheme would cost around £60m. Money would be borrowed using the club’s existing credit facility. Public consultation process now underway. https://twitter.com/JamesPearceLFC/status/1200339655440384000?s=19 140 comments soccer
- I will qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) in 5 years. $180k balance on loans, $75k estimated balance after 5 years. Is this a no-brainer? Am I missing any major potential downsides? $75k "free money"?? https://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/charts/public-service 60 comments personalfinance
- "The Koch brothers are working to destroy net neutrality, to impede Wall Street reform, to prevent a minimum wage increase, and, of course, to keep corporate money in elections. But among other issues too numerous to detail, it seems they really have it in for public transit." http://www.attn.com/stories/295/high-speed-rail-greatest-story-never-told 6 comments politics
- More than $100m of public money in Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries and a key regional recipient of western aid, was wasted in a series of potentially corrupt international arms deals, a leaked official document alleges. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/06/niger-lots-tens-of-millions-to-arms-deals-malpractice-leaked-report-alleges 26 comments worldnews
- Prostitution for the Price of a Happy Meal - 32 states in the country ban anyone convicted of a drug felony from collecting food stamps. Punishing people by denying access to food is terrible policy; threatens overall public health. It does not fight drug use, nor does it save taxpayers money. http://prospect.org/article/prostitution-price-happy-meal 313 comments politics
- Germany's Green Party proposes sex prescriptions for disabled people, a spokeswoman for the Party has said disabled and seriously ill people should be able to claim back public money if they pay for sex http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38549030 27 comments worldnews
- The European Commission plans to officially propose setting up a European public prosecutor's office. Such an office would investigate financial crimes in all member states. "We have to protect the money of EU taxpayers, especially in this time of the crisis" http://www.15min.lt/en/article/world/european-prosecutor-s-office-to-be-set-up-during-lithuania-s-eu-presidency-529-258970 16 comments europe