Indirect costs on research grants represent charges to cover the administration of grant funds; heating, cooling, water, gas, fume hoods and other centralized infrastructure; building and grounds security; facility maintenance and custodial services. Historically, these have been negotiated every two years between each institution and the NIH depending on the proportion of infrastructure devoted to […]
They go without, show up at ERs, or go to overcrowded Clinics. The costs of the first two end up being far more than a healthcare plan. And at clinics the healthcare may be less because of less resource. It really makes a lot of sense for a state to do this also. In the […]
Didn’t that used to be a car? Wait a minute that was Dodge . . . Why is Doge any different than scammers attacking your credit card, etc.? Where are the courts on all of this. And our Congress? They can not be immune to a court saying no. Consumer Advocates Decry Musk ‘Minions’ as […]
I have not seen where the Senate has confirmed RFK (in name only) yet. Maybe it is happening as I type this commentary? A few thoughts come to pass as I read certain articles. There always seem to be a few amongst the Democrats who will shoot the party and themselves in their respective feet […]
The latter part of New Deal’s report on January 2025 Jobs portends of things to come in the economic reporting of Employment and Unemployment statistics. It is thought the accuracy of the reporting “may” change going forward. We hope not. It is a possibility with this administration. If unreported, it is taken as never happening. […]
January jobs report: annual revisions clear up some big discrepancies, but monthly numbers are close to pre-recessionary – by New Deal democrat My theme for the past several years as to employment has been “deceleration,” as in a gradual cooldown from white hot to red hot to hot to warm. But at some point past […]
Steve Hutkins giving an update of Louis DeJoy’s plan to make the USPS more efficient and profitable. PRC finds Delivering for America has significant problems, urges USPS to reconsider its plan Steve Hutkins “Save the Post Office“ Yesterday the Postal Regulatory Commission issued its Advisory Opinion on the Postal Service’s Delivering for America plan. The […]
The Flaw in Musk’s Plan which a Military Veteran Exposed Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s ploy to strong-arm large sections of the federal workforce into taking “deferred resignations” is not going to work, wrote Michael Embrich for Rolling Stone. Federal workers were given this offer by a bizarre email titled “Fork in the Road.” An ultimatum eerily similar […]
In the last two elections (2016 and 2020), the specter of voter fraud arises. Such in both elections was disproven or mostly disproven. There will be voting issue on a different order outside of fraud. In both 2016 and 2020 Candidate and President Trump raised the issue of voter fraud. In 2024 we heard similar […]
– by New Deal democrat Let’s take our typically weekly look at jobless claims. I do this because there are a very good and timely short leading indicator for the labor market. Initial claims rose 11,000 to 219,000. The four week moving average rose 4,000 to 216,750. With the typical one week delay, continued claims […]