EDITORIAL: Access to Government Pays Should Be Just the Start
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By The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.  May 25--It may soon be much easier to find out how a big chunk of our tax  dollars is being spent.
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The new economic era will require that millions of people earning around the national average, $17 an hour, shoulder more responsibility and risk on the way to financial security, economists say. -The Washington Post
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The government should scrap tax credits and pay parents to stay at home caring for their children, a report argues.
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âOur advice is rather than having a straight line reduction [of debts], [the Philippine government should] try to achieve it earlier.
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Comment is free: John Harris: The government needs to look past middle England and address the harsh realities of an increasingly casualised workforce.
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With its regulatory troubles behind it, now it's time to make some money.
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WASHINGTON -- Quality, not quantity, should be the federal government's guide in setting payments to doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers, a report requested by Congress said yesterday.
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Should the government set salaries for public sector workers, like nurses and the police, for three years instead of one?
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Our position is: Congress needs to add a federal judgeship in Indiana to make the workload more manageable. Marion County courts aren&#39;t the only ones facing budget constraints.
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That precarious top may be just the beginning.
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Private firms and voluntary groups should run schemes to get people off benefits and into work, a report will say.
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By Laura Smitherman, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 9--As the courts wrestle with how much authority governments should have to seize private property, some Maryland legislators are uniting behind a proposal to boost compensation for owners whose property is taken.
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Rural communities should be free to raise their own taxes and elect new leaders, say experts.
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With the government's blessing, more than a dozen states secured health insurance coverage for adults under a program designed to help poor children. Now, there is not enough money to cover the kids.
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Should taxpayers pay to safeguard coastal residents from the ocean or should beach towns shovel the sand themselves?
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Nation needs government help to maintain competitive edge, group says.
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Comment is free: Seumas Milne: We're not facing a winter of discontent. But if Brown keeps cutting public sector workers' pay, there'll be a backlash.