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RT @kzickuhr: Polling when public attention is limited: Different questions, different results pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013… … On new @pewresearch…
Polling when public attention is limited: Different questions, different results
pewresearch.org — When three different polling organizations conducted surveys last weekend to gauge public reaction to the news about the Department of Justice's subpoenas of reporters' phone records, their findings were quite different - a case study in the challenges pollsters face in a breaking news environment when public attention and information is relatively limited.
RT @MySportsLegion: PJ Carlesimo said on ESPN he would have also left Roy Hibbert on the bench, "but that's probably why I'm sitting here r…
RT @SusanPage: Support for press' right to publish the highest in 3 decades; 62% say it trumps govt need for secrecy: http://t.co/9NbzHp8rc…
Poll: Ruckus over Benghazi, IRS is driven by politics
usatoday.com — USA TODAY poll: Three of four Americans say the recent controversies will make it harder for Obama to get things done. WASHINGTON - Americans are divided over whether to believe the White House on controversies over the Libyan attack that killed a U.S.
Lois Lerner: "I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws." #IRS
RT @PhillyInquirer: The Cleveland Cavaliers will have the top pick in the #NBADraft. The Sixers will pick 11th.
Top IRS official will invoke 5th Amendment latimes.com/news/politics/…
Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment
latimes.com — WASHINGTON - A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency's improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.
IRS officials gave false or misleading information to Congress & public on numerous occasions. ow.ly/lfTtn
IRS Officials Misled Congress, Public
factcheck.org — IRS officials gave false or misleading information on numerous occasions regarding its now discredited practice of targeting conservative groups that sought nonprofit status. A Treasury inspector general's report issued May 14 found the IRS used "inappropriate criteria," beginning in March 2010, to identify potential political groups seeking nonprofit status based on their names and policy positions.
RT @WayneCabot: Scandal truth and fiction - Listen to @wcbs880 Fact Check Friday on #IRS and Benghazi. cbsloc.al/YOUfWb @factcheckdot…
Fact Check Friday: Scandals Hit The White House
newyork.cbslocal.com — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - It's that time again, time to use a lie detector on the people running the country. We call it Fact Check Friday, and we have help from factcheck.org, a nonpartisan non-profit part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia This week, a look inside the scandals bogging down the White House, starting with the IRS.
RT @factcheckdotorg: Biden falsely claimed U.S. workers “are three times as productive as any worker in the world" at UPenn commencement. h…
Joe Biden’s Productivity Piffle
factcheck.org — Vice President Joe Biden falsely claimed that U.S. workers "are three times as productive as any worker in the world." He's not even close. By the standard measure for productivity, American workers ranked third in the world behind Norway and Ireland in 2011. Biden also stated that the U.S.
CBO says "budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008." 1.usa.gov/102Zlzc
Updated Budget Projections: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023
cbo.gov — If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008. Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year-at 4.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)-will be less than half as large as the shortfall in 2009, which was 10.1 percent of GDP.Have a Story?
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