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Fox Business:  U.S. employers hired fewer workers than expected last month as supplemental unemployment benefits expired. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 194,000 workers in September as the unemployment rate fell to 4.8%, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting the addition of 500,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate to slip to 5.1%.… Read more »

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Associated Press:  A trade publication is again giving Georgia high marks for its business environment. For the eighth straight year, Area Development magazine named Georgia the best state to do business, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Gov. Brian Kemp touted the award on Friday at the opening of a new Amazon warehouse in Columbia County, a suburb of Augusta.… Read more »

Epoch Times:  President Joe Biden’s proposal for a radical expansion of IRS monitoring of Americans’ bank accounts would be stopped in its tracks under a proposal introduced by two Senate Republicans concerned about protecting privacy rights. “What they’ve done is, they are weaponizing the IRS, they’re pushing many, many billions of dollars into that and they will be hiring… Read more »

Wall Street Journal:  Democrats are grasping for ways to finance their cradle-to-grave welfare state, with the left demanding what they claim is $3.5 trillion over 10 years. The truth is that even that gargantuan number hides the real cost of their plans. The bills moving through committees are full of delayed starts, phony phase-outs, and cost shifting to states designed to… Read more »

Epoch Times:  It’s all politics, all the time in Congress, so escaping the drumbeat of favor-seekers, lobbyists and fund-raising pressure via the sanctuary provided by Randy and Kimberly Genau is special, according to Desiree Loudermilk, wife of Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.). “Kimberly is really non-political, she never talks about issues or things like that, she just wants to… Read more »

GPB News:  Gov. Brian Kemp pledged to pursue legal action against the federal government after President Joe Biden announced sweeping vaccine requirements aimed at curbing rapid spread of COVID-19. The governor and other Georgia Republican lawmakers quickly took to social media to condemn Biden’s new vaccine mandates as an attack on personal freedoms. “I strongly oppose the… Read more »

Politico:  As hard as Kevin McCarthy has hammered the White House over the chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, he’s under rising pressure from his right to go further. The House minority leader has repeatedly pushed back on rank-and-file Republicans who want to make a high-stakes call for impeaching Biden over his handling of Afghanistan — a vow that would come… Read more »

Fox News: "The Five" host Greg Gutfeld called out critics of the growing list of lawmakers calling for President Biden's impeachment over his Afghanistan crisis, noting many are the same people who wanted Donald Trump impeached over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The panel noted that the Trump-era agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan was… Read more »