If Republicans let tax cut enhancements expire this year for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces, citizens “will see their monthly premium payments increase by about 114%, on average,” states a major health research firm.
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 10th, 2010On the eve of Veterans’ Day, the American Spark feels it’s only right to discuss just how well our nation treats our heroes’ families…
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 5th, 2010″If the news outlets were actually reporting, they would tell us the honest and awful truth,” writes Elizabeth Wurtzel today in The Guardian. The…
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 1st, 2010″Wall Street titans have a new sweet spot–as surrogate taxcollectors,” states the lead-in for a fascinating video from TheHuffington Post Investigative Fund.”[Wall Street sees]…
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 26th, 2010The wealthiest in the United States have seen a five-fold increase in their average incomes from 2008, even asthe Great Recession continues to destroy…
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 18th, 2010The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in September released a study on the importance ofproviding citizens with a broadband Internet service.As the GAO report…
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 11th, 2010There has been a growing tide of righteous anger in America over the presumed legitimacy of this country’sforeclosure proceedings.A wave of foreclosures helped create…
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 5th, 2010The ‘Out of Poverty Caucus’ is a newly formed Congressional organization dedicated “to raising awarenessabout the millions of Americans who live without adequate food,…
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 26th 2010Want to fill the voting booths this November with enthusiastic voters hungry for real change? A true alternativeto America’s two useless political parties should…
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 16th, 2010Nearly half of America’s federal debt was accumulated from 2002 to 2008–years in which George W. Bushwas president, reveals a U.S. government study released…
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 1st, 2010The federal bureau which approves Big Oil’s purchases of resources on public land keeps a rather poor recordof citizen protests, according to a study…
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 26th, 2010A recent study by a true grassroots network reveals how the big banks gamed America’s economic system atyour expense–and it’s expressed in clear, easy-to-understand…
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 17th, 2010Though federal officials recently passed sweeping financial oversightlegislation, many of the day-to-day rules that will give that law realteeth will be written by regulators…
By Cliff Montgomery – July 22nd, 2010Employing so-called ‘Clean Coal’ technology at U.S. power plants may create a host of legal and economicproblems, according to an instructive Government Accountability Office…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 28th, 2010Washington so far has revealed a frightful inability to handle the growing BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But a congressional…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 17th, 2010It now seems clear the current global financial crisiswas the result of widespread fraud. And it appearsthat the top criminals work on America’s Wall…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2010A 2008 U.S. government study, which discussed potentially disruptive gas sediments on the Gulf Coast sea floor, may offer a clue as to what…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2010The federal government currently may lack the necessary resources and expertise to stop or clean up amassive oil spill, according to a Congressional Research…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 9th, 2010The Congressional Research Service (CRS) last month released a study entitled, Economic Impacts of Prison Growth. Its essential findings were telling:A.) America now has…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 4th, 2010A British Petroleum (BP)-leased oil rig located forty miles off the Louisiana coast exploded on April 20th,pouring gargantuan amounts of crude oil into the…
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2010No honest person liked the federal government’scorporate bailouts of 2008-2009. But we at theAmerican Spark feel the special animosity somepeople exhibited toward the bailouts…
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 14th, 2010The recent West Virginia mining disaster is a chilling reminder of why unions still matter.”Massey Energy Co., the company which owns the mine, is…
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 4th, 2010″The current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyber-attack by the United States is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain,” according to a press…