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Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta took on occupational licensing reform Friday, calling for the elimination of unnecessary licenses and the streamlining of those that make sense…. Read More
SocietyNews
Liberals built a welfare state that doesn’t offer upward mobility to Americans trapped in poverty, “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance says, and conservatives should step… Read More
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A government-funded job training program that promised to turn hundreds of residents of Kentucky’s coal country into computer coders so far has spent $2 million… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Earlier this week, craftsmen and entrepreneurs from all 50 states met on the White House lawn to celebrate American-made products, as a part of the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Despite the low rumble of an economic slowdown on the horizon from various experts predicting the worst is to come, the Trump administration will no… Read More
EconomyNews
Young men are working less and playing video games more, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study published Monday. Men ages 21 to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
America’s entrepreneurial dynamism has been falling, and the cost of inaction grows daily. According to a recent study by the Economic Innovation Group, America “suffers… Read More
EconomyCommentary
With the month of June now here, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its jobs report for the month of May. The picture isn’t… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Donald Trump’s newly released budget contains a proposed food stamp reform, which the left has denounced as a “horror” that arbitrarily cuts food stamp… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The April jobs report is in, and the Trump administration is taking a victory lap. That’s because the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an increase… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Editor’s note: Kevin Mooney’s reports on evidence of fraud in the unionization of home caregivers in Minnesota struck a nerve. Neither the union affiliate in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Could the U.S. economy be growing more than the official growth figures let on? In a recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, “Why… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Friday’s jobs report announced that businesses created 98,000 jobs, underperforming expert predictions, and showing the weakest gains in almost a year. It appears that the… Read More
EconomyFeature
Anthony J. Saliba is no shrinking violet. As a prominent Chicago financier as well as a trustee of the nation’s leading conservative think tank, he… Read More
EconomyCommentary
When then-North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed H.B. 2, the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act (commonly known as the “bathroom bill”), into law on… Read More
EconomyNews
For 17 years of his life, Roger Ramsey worked 80 hours a week as a maintenance technician for the Bethlehem Steel Company. When the Sparrows… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just announced the U.S. economy created 235,000 jobs in February, slightly higher than most experts expected and much higher than… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The way to help women continue to move forward isn’t to propagate the myth that women in the United States are victims, oppressed by the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Entrepreneurial dynamism has lagged in America for the past eight years, according to The Heritage Foundation’s 2017 Index of Economic Freedom. Yet someone in Mississippi’s… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Progressives are touting a $15 minimum wage as a low-cost policy to reduce poverty and income inequality. However, the costs of a high minimum wage… Read More
EconomyCommentary
There is little question in most academic research that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in unemployment. The debatable issue is the magnitude… Read More
EconomyNews
President-elect Donald Trump’s public campaign to push U.S. companies to make their products in America is already having an impact, especially on one of his… Read More
Commentary
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl’s Jr., the successful fast-food hamburger restaurant chain, as his secretary of labor. This has set off… Read More
EconomyCommentary
November saw very little change in the U.S. labor market, according to a new employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employers added a… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The labor market didn’t change much in October, according to today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report. Unemployment and job creation have remained steady over… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The rise of Uber and Lyft has been a good thing for both riders and drivers. Riders like the cheaper prices and reliable service of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Time to change those outdated signs, ladies. It’s no longer the case that “women only make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men.” According… Read More
EconomyCommentary
This past Monday marked the 20th anniversary of President Bill Clinton using the Antiquities Act to create the 1.5 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released data this week showing that the ratio of unemployed people per job opening remains at the lowest it has… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ August employment report showed little change in the labor market. Employers added a net 151,000 jobs. That rate of job… Read More
