Walmart’s low wages cost taxpayers a lot of money and contribute to national debt, this according to a new congressional report. One Walmart supercenter can cost taxpayers as much as $251,000 in food stamps alone.

Dear Ms. Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University,

Please take a stance and action on Reinhart and Rogoff’s multipally-debunked austerity paper.

The map below shows activities around the country to overturn Citizens United. Links to get involved with Overturn Citizens United are shown below the map.

Entitlement spending is mandatory spending as mandated by congress and differs significantly from discretionary spending. Entitlement spending generally makes up around 60% – 65% of total US government spending.

The largest component of the US budget is entitlement spending. Entitlement is not a dirty word – let’s take a look at how it works.

Contrary to a lot of propaganda being espoused by certain political groups, the US does not have a discretionary “spending problem!” The solution to the US budget deficit is, in fact, quite straightforward if not entirely easy.