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On August 30, 2013, final regulations were published in the Federal Register (78 FR 53646), [16] with minor corrections published December 26, 2013 (78 FR 78256). On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which eliminated the federal tax penalty for violating the individual mandate, starting in 2019.
The Buy American Act (originally 41 U.S.C. §§ 10a–10d, now 41 U.S.C. §§ 8301–8305) passed in 1933 by the Congress and signed by President Hoover on his last full day in office (March 3, 1933), [1] required the United States government to prefer U.S.-made products in its purchases.
In 2016, according to the Sentencing Project's Fact Sheet on Trends in U.S. Corrections, 2.1 million individuals were in America's prisons or jails. [2] This reflects a 500% increase since the mid-1980s, which has come to be known as mass incarceration.
Corrections Corporation of America is in the business of private prison. ... but when you can provide space for inmates at a fraction of the price of the government, you have a good business. ...
The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which became CoreCivic in October 2017, as well as the industry as a whole, rebounded in the early 2000s. This followed a massive increase in detentions of undocumented immigrants by the federal government in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, which created a new market for its facilities. From 2001 to ...
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump told world and business leaders Thursday to make products in America or prepare to pay tariffs. Trump's remarks came the same day as a new analysis ...
America’s current foreign assistance is untethered to our desired foreign policy outcomes. In most cases, American aid does not promote our interests abroad because its strategic purpose is ill ...
Lobbying includes approaching a public official in secret, possibly giving them money. But petitioning, as America's founders knew it, was a public process, involving no money. Some litigants have contended that the right to petition the government includes a requirement that the government listen to or respond to members of the public.