Killing the American Dream with the Minimum Wage
Political crusades for raising the minimum wage are back again. Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being more “compassionate” towards “the poor.” But they seldom bother…
The Poor: Reagan vs. Obama
by Ralph R. Reiland I think the poor need another Reagan in the White House. The income of black heads-of-households dropped by 10.9 percent from June 2009 to June 2013.…
The Weak Recovery Explains Rising Inequality, Not Vice Versa
Obama blames tax cuts that began under Reagan for today’s slow growth. The data don’t back him up. By John B. Taylor Last year at this time a debate raged…
The US job market is dead in the water and not getting better
How do you know the August jobs report was pretty bad? When the best thing you can say is that it might have met Wall Street expectations if not…
The ObamaCare bomb
The scheme is about to blow up the incentive to work A mere three weeks remain before the Obamacare exchanges open for business. The likely result will be the closing…
On Indian Gaming, Walker Has it Right
The Wisconsin governor has issued a set of principles that should be viewed as a model for the nation by Peter Roff Originally designed as a way to compensate Indian…
Worse than Carter
The “labor force participation rate” hit a record low hit at 63.2 percent. This represents the percentage of Americans over the age of 16 who have jobs (even if it is part-time or…
Obamanomics in decline
Falling income and employment is becoming the new normal Fewer Americans will be returning to the work force after the traditional Labor Day holiday. Labor force participation is at the…
We should accelerate energy production boom
Government should speed oil infrastructure improvements, a key piece in America’s manufacturing resurgence. A bright spot in the U.S.’s sluggish economic recovery has been historic growth in North American energy…
Jobless rate is worse than you think
by Heidi Shierholz On Labor Day, we celebrate the American worker. And more than four years since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, the unemployment rate is 7.4%, a big…
The truth about falling wages
The left and “progressives” love to blame wage stagnation on greedy businesses wanting to gobble a larger share of the pie. But it’s actually a product of businesses’ uncertainty about…
The Healthy Fisheries through Better Science Act
The Hon. Rob Wittman 2454 Rayburn HOB United States House of Representatives Washington. D.C. 20515 Dear Representative Wittman: On behalf of the members and supporters of Frontiers of Freedom, let me…
Prof. Walter Williams: “The civil rights struggle is won”
On WMAL’s “Mornings on the Mall” radio program (105.9 FM) in Washington, D.C., on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, George Mason University professor Walter E.…
The Unaffordable Careless Act
Small businesses won’t grow, and more employees will work fewer hours. That’s just for starters. by Karl Rove Harvard (and later Columbia) sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote in 1936 about…
The Obamacare Propaganda Push
by Peter Roff Rather than devote all possible resources to the implementation of the new health care law, which even some prominent Democrats agree is going off the tracks, the…