Immigration

Construction of the first 40 miles of a new wall on the nation’s southern border is underway in California and New Mexico after U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel upheld waivers to various laws, including the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

Like all nations, the people of the United States have faced challenging times.

The state's Obamacare exchange is no longer pursuing permission from the federal government to let undocumented immigrants use the exchange to buy health insurance..

Consumer Power Report #464 Why are insurance rate increases so much higher than expected? At Forbes, Bob Laszewski explains: Instead of moderate rate increases for one more year, the big rate increases have begun.

Two Republican congressional candidates in Virginia say the federal investor-visa program is “ripe with abuse” and it’s time for a House cleaning. “It’s a total crony boondoggle,” Dave Brat said of the EB-5 immigration program.

The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported one in three counties was “dying” in 2012, a figure that does not surprise Wendell Cox, a consultant to public and private urban planning and transportation organizations.

President Obama has been talking a good game on the threats of sequestration to all sorts of government services. But his administration is determined not to let the automatic budget cuts in any way derail the implementation of Obamacare.

Recent primary elections in Texas have once again highlighted that state's status as a place people are moving to rather than away from.

Influential members of the U.S. tech community are tossing around the idea of forming a union for information technology workers, citing a weakening economy and the trend of outsourcing work overseas or demanding more from Americans at the workplace.

Influential congresswoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) says the next president should push for tech-savvy appointments on the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the market more strictly.

State legislators disappointed with the inability of Congress to agree on immigration reform have formed a new group to fight illegal immigration in the United States. Pennsylvania state Rep.

PISA 2003 Mean Scores in MathematicsOECD CountriesFinland 544Korea 542Netherlands 538Japan 534Canada 532Belgium 529Switzerland 527Australia 524New Zealand 523Czech Republic 516Iceland 515Denmark 514France 511Sweden 509