U.S. government outsourcing through contracting jobs not out of the country necessarily but to the private sector.
Federal Contract and Assistance Awards by Contracting Agency
http://www.usaspending.gov
From 2000 to 2010:
Defense Dept $2.775 tril…
More government control not the answer. National Education Department reform necessary, preferably shifting power to individual states with a modicum of oversight by the U.S. government.
"Voucher advocates may argue that private schools can avoid a…
We certainly don't disagree about that. I do find it troubling that the area most egregious is not being addressed. Also all of the government's ability to outsource to the private sector as contracting. These vast expenditures have been rising expo…
The truth is the website http://www.mygovcost.org (privately funded) does not address the major cost of why we are struggling with lack of jobs and capital investment in the U.S. -- rewarding our multinational corporations with tax free and other pe…
From good old trusty Wikipedia:
Oil shale
The Piceance Basin contains one of the thickest and richest oil shale deposits in the world and is the focus of most on-going oil shale research and development extraction projects in the U.S. The Piceance…
Here's something interesting: the usgs website I gave you didn't work so I tried to find a better address. In doing so, I came across a 2010 study NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OIL AND GAS PROJECT - Oil shale and mahcolite resources of the Piceance Basin,…