About: Katelynd Day

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program that Obama announced in June was open for applications on Wednesday. According to the US Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS), if you are an illegal immigrant, pay $465 and can prove that you:   Were under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012;   Came to theContinue Reading

Back in May, the USDA expanded the acceptance of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards at farmers’ markets. This expansion requires an additional $4million for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to increase access to healthy food for low-income communities. This $4million will be allocated to states to set up EBT programs at farmers’ markets. NorthContinue Reading

USA Today reports that while campaigning in Iowa on Tuesday President Obama announced that the government will purchase “…up to $100 million of pork, $50 million of chicken, and $10 million of both lamb and catfish products for federal food nutrition assistance programs, including food banks.” This is a relatively normal occurrence; the USDA hasContinue Reading

WRAL reports that “Dunn Mayor Pro Tem Carnell Robinson says he is fairly confident that the City Council on Tuesday will approve his proposed ban on saggy pants, a fashion statement typified by men whose underwear is visible above the waist of their pants. Under the proposal, the first two violations would result in aContinue Reading

According to a story on WRAL, “anyone convicted of a prior crime punishable by more than a year in prison cannot legally own a gun. For about two decades, federal prosecutors in North Carolina applied that law using the worst-case scenario, meaning a defendant’s actual sentence didn’t matter. Prosecutors used the theory that a defendantContinue Reading

At the beginning of 2012, the Wall Street Journal covered predictions that the new technologies of hydraulic fracturing and vertical wells that turn horizontally through oil-rich rock could increase U.S. oil output by 1 million barrels a day by 2016. This prediction is coming true, and we see rising U.S. oil production as well asContinue Reading

Peter Schiff comments on the Department of Labor’s report of 227,000 new jobs added to the economy in February contending its figure to be a misleading indication that an economic recovery is underway based on the Commerce Department’s report that the US trade deficit has increased to $52.6 billion for January. “If the jobs thatContinue Reading

Discouraged by the unrepresentative data and misleading media coverage, Antech Systems, SkillTV.net and concerned maintenance technicians collaborated to create The Occupy a Job application. Joel Leonard of SkillTV.net notes that there are 3.5 million unfilled jobs (more than 40 percent are in skilled trades) compared to more than 14 million people out of work, yetContinue Reading