Bureaucracy
Will Empower survive in D.C.? Court delays jail for CEO, keeps rideshare running.
Joshua Sear, CEO of the popular rideshare alternative Empower, won't be incarcerated for his company's continued operations in Washington, D.C., after Superior Court Judge Shana Frost Matini agreed on Thursday to…
The Trump administration is using the shutdown to fire federal workers
It's day 10 of the government shutdown, and the Trump administration is finally starting to make good on its plans to permanently lay off federal workers. "RIFs have begun," Office of Management and Budget…
Bureau of Labor Statistics data is not needed for the U.S. economy to function
The government shutdown has thus far had no effect on 74 percent of federal spending, but it has led to the furloughing of more than 2,000 of the 2,321 employees working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and delayed the…
