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If you go to India or you go to any number of other Third World countries, you have two problems: You have greater inequality of income and wealth. You also have less opportunity for people to rise from the have not to the have.
— Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the richest man in Congress, telling CNN that America has made “our poor somewhat the envy of the world.”
1,335
Number of Americans living overseas who renounced their citizenship in the first three months of 2015,a record, reports The Hill. “That number is 18 percent higher than the previous record… In all of 2014, 3,415 individuals gave up their U.S. citizenship, the second straight year when renouncements hit a new record high.”
233,000
Number of jobs added in the U.S. last month as unemployment rate dipped to 5.4%, a seven-year low, according to Wonk Wire.
Behind former Gov. Mike Huckabee’s warm smile, inclusive rhetoric, and gee-whiz populism lies an ethics record that would make a Clinton blush. His greedy, cheesy money grabs in Arkansas were a preview of today’s greedy, cheesy money grabs. … As part of what the New York Times called ‘unconventional ways to fund a campaign,’ the newly minted GOP presidential candidate recently pitched a dubious medical treatment via infomercial… But that’s not all! Huckabee is allowing his mailing list – the names and email addresses of his political supporters — to be used to peddle cancer cures based on Bible verses.
If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it’s him.
— Jeb Bush, surprising many of the 50-plus attendees at an exclusive Manhattan gathering by naming his brother, former president George W. Bush, as his most influential counselor on U.S.-Israel policy, the Washington Post reports.
$3 million
Amount Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2016 presidential campaign pulled in over the last four days, The Hill reports. “Sanders’s campaign had received approximately 75,000 contributions at an average amount of $43. … A campaign adviser also told the publication 99.4 percent of the donations were in the amounts of $250 or less.”
49%
Of New York City voters report things are going in the wrong direction, and 45% say they are moving in the right one, a new Marist poll finds. “To compound New Yorkers’ downbeat attitude about the city, fewer than one in five residents, 17%, believes the overall quality of life in the city has improved over the last year. A majority, 56%, reports it has either gotten worse, 33%, or has remained the same which, in their view, is a bad thing, 23%.”
15%
Jeb Bush’s lead in the GOP presidential race, followed by Marco Rubio at 12%, Scott Walker at 11%, and Rand Paul at 10%, a new WMUR poll in New Hampshire finds. Chris Christie “dropped from 9% in February to 3%, even after rolling out an entitlement reform plan that received positive reviews for its candor.”
