By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org A billion-dollar welfare program to help laid-off workers displaced by foreign competition has been saved from extinction, even though it’s been judged ineffective and wasteful according to the federal government’s own commissioned studies. Flexing his bipartisan muscle, President Obama signed the bill Monday renewing the Trade Adjustment Assistance program until 2021, which gives welfare payments and training to workers who…
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Deval Patrick’s travel slush fund no longer secret
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org If your governor had a secret travel slush fund worth tens of millions of dollars used to jet set to Japan, Israel and the United Arab Emirates, wouldn’t you want to know about it? That’s the question put to Massachusetts residents this week after revelations former Gov. Deval Patrick used off-the-record bookkeeping to conceal more than $37.5 million driven to…
‘I Was Attacked By the Serbian Internet Mob’: The Art of Being Hated in the Modern Age
Private education, the importance of competition, and the liberty movement
Private education, the importance of competition and the liberty movement among students, highlighting the work of European Students For Liberty. Speech given at Eldorado bookstore in Oslo, Norway. 26. May 2015
Persona Non Grata in Serbia: Uniting the Ire and Wrath of an Entire Nation via YouTube
‘Another sad day for Connecticut’ as $2 billion tax hike set to pass
By Yaël Ossowski / June 1, 2015 / Watchdog.org He once promised to balance Connecticut’s books through spending cuts alone. Now Gov. Dannel Malloy says he’s ready to OK a nearly $2 billion tax increase no later than June 3, when the legislative session ends. A new budget, passed by the Democratic supermajority on Monday, will raise the state’s top tax bracket to 6.99 percent,…
Speech in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
On Saturday, 23. May I gave a speech at an event organized by my friend and European Students For Liberty Chairman Stoyan Panchev in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was my speech on Free Immigration: Defending the Right to Live and Work Anywhere and Everywhere. Plovdiv was the 5th city and Bulgaria the 4th country I’ve given this speech in.
Upcoming Speech in Oslo, Norway
On Tuesday, 26. May, I will be speaking at an event of Liberalistene (The Capitalist Party of Norway) at the Eldorado Bokhandel in central Oslo, Norway. I will discuss Private education, the importance of competition and the liberty movement among students, highlighting the work of European Students For Liberty.
At education summit, opponents protest success of charter schools in New Orleans
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org Charter schools in New Orleans have enjoyed growing popular support over the years, but at least one group is hoping to quell the praise for reforms. The Dignity in Schools Campaign, a nonprofit group against zero-tolerance behavior policies in schools, brought their protest signs to the American Federation for Children Policy Summit held in New Orleans over the weekend to…
DISH CEO Charlie Ergen flooded GOP with cash while it held FCC
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org Anywhere the wind blows in politics, the money is sure to follow. As for DISH Network CEO Charles Ergen, a top political financier in the U.S. wireless broadcast game and regulation, it hasn’t just been a one-sided venture. Reported by Watchdog.org on Monday, Ergen’s hundreds of thousands of dollars of donations to top Democratic leaders, those who lobbied the FCC…