Newscom Last week, a hacker turned cybersecurity expert, Marc Maiffret, published an enlightening op-ed in The New York Times, arguing the private sector can and should do more to improve the nation’s cybersecurity. This is especially true since the private sector produces the hardware and software for every device we use. Congress should harness the… Read more »
Change in Nonfarm Private Employment (in thousands) Automatic Data Processing reported Wednesday that a seasonally adjusted 158,000 private-sector jobs were added to the economy in March, considerably fewer than forecast by a consensus of experts surveyed by Bloomberg in advance. That suggests that the government’s monthly jobs report due out Friday from the Bureau of… Read more »
Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford has won the Republican nomination for a seat in the House, and his former mistress (and current fiancée) was on hand to congratulate him. She’s been described as a “very private person,” but there’s no chance of maintaining that status during the upcoming showdown with Elizabeth Colbert Busch. the… Read more »
Arkansas has been the central state in health policy ever since it proposed using Medicaid expansion dollars to buy private insurance coverage—and the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, to the surprise of many, approved the idea. At least, in concept. The details of the Arkansas agreement are not yet fully fleshed out…. Read more »