FEMA Flood Insurance May Lapse In January
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is the primary source of flood insurance coverage for U.S. residential properties.
Harsh Debate Not The Problem
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 11th, 2011Since the tragic shootings in Arizona, well-intentioned people from across the political spectrum have called for a strong change in the tone of social…
Stimulus Was Starting To Work
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 7th, 2010″During the third quarter of 2010, recipients reported, ARRA [the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] funded more than 670,000 Full-Time-Equivalent jobs,” stated a recent…
Mountaintop Mining Oversight
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 22nd, 2010A study on federal oversight of surface coal mining in Appalachia was released last month by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). It’s important, as…
Who Finances Us Debt
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 15th, 2010The current global monetary system “allows the US to run high deficits and it prolongs a situation in whichcapital flows ‘uphill’…from poor countries to…
Veterans Affairs Insurance
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…
Republicans Will Solve Nothing
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…
Wall Street Foreclosures
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]…
Wealthiest Gain As We Lose
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…
Broadband Access For Citizens
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…
Obama Wont Sign Foreclosure Bill
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…
Poverty In America
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,…
Nobody Is Most Popular Candidate
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…
Half Of Fed Debt Created In Bush Years
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…
Gao Public Protest Data
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…
Gaming The Banking System
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…
Wall Street Rigging Oversight
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…
Clean Coal Problems
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…
Gulf Stafford Act Assistance
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…
Financial Meltdown Perfect Crime
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…
Drilling Into Gas Hydrates
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…
Feds Lack Oil Spill Expertise
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…
Prisons Are Big Business
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…
Bp Lobbying
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…