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(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Able-bodied Americans who have dropped out of the labor force can in dozens of states earn at least the national median household income through unemployment benefits and Obamacare's insurance subsidies. In a study titled, "Paying Americans Not to Work," the Committee to Unleash Prosperity found that...

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) In Hudson, New York, participants in the city's guaranteed income program that started in 2020 were counseled on how the $500 a month they were set to receive over a 5-year-period would impact other government subsidies for which they are eligible. "Will participants lose other...

(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden signed an executive order giving federal employees a significant pay bump heading into the new year, but that increase still does not keep up with inflation. The executive order gives “General Schedule” employees a 4.6% pay increase, 4.1% as a raise and 0.5%...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Leftist political donor and former FTX CEO Sam Bankman--Fried has been betrayed by his girlfriend as a part of a plea deal, ZeroHedge reported. Former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, who reportedly maintained an open relationship with Bankman--Fried prior to the FTX downfall, has agreed to cooperate...

(Headline USA) The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman--Fried can post $250 million bond and live in his parents’ home in California while he awaits trial on charges that he swindled investors and looted customer deposits on his FTX trading platform, a judge said Thursday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos said in...

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) President Joe Biden's Bureau of Labor Statistics (a division of the Department of Labor) fabricated a million jobs to influence the 2022 election, demonstrating the subversive influence of the administrative state on American politics. In June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released an overly optimistic job...

(Headline USA) Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that he plans on remaining as Twitter's CEO until he can find someone willing to replace him in the job. Musk’s announcement came after millions of Twitter users asked him to step down in an unscientific poll the billionaire himself created and promised...

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The usual herd of Senate RINOs, along with a few discouraging collaborators, agreed Tuesday night to advance the $1.7 trillion leftist agenda spending plan and omnibus grift. Not voting: Barrasso, Burr, Cruz, Hickenlooper and Inhofe. We do not expect further votes this evening. https://t.co/mHC2o91qEz — Senate Press Gallery (@SenatePress)...

(Headline USA) Sam Bankman--Fried may be ready to come to the U.S. to face criminal charges related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX following a chaotic court appearance in the Bahamas. A lawyer for Democrats' second-leading donor during the 2022 election cycle was quoted as saying Monday the disgraced...

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Two of America's leading tech oligarchs have joined the push to develop microchips that will allow them to control and monitor plebian citizens who might otherwise try to disrupt their globalist plans. In a scenario befitting the dystopian series Black Mirror, billionaires Bill Gates and...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In Congress's massive new bipartisan defense bill, enormous sums of money have been allocated to bolster the Pentagon's "diversity" budget, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported. Congress has allocated $131.7 million in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act to projects aimed at diversity and inclusion in...