Higher premiums could really kneecap the economic recovery. by Jacqueline Leo ObamaCare has delivered another sucker punch to the middle class. This time it’s sticker shock. Now that most people…
The country needs jobs, not more jobless benefits. Congress and the White House have completely lost sight of this. One blessing of the holiday season is upon us: The prospect that…
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Last week, President Obama gave a much-touted speech on “income inequality.” But while inequality is a valid concern, it’s not so clear that unequal incomes are the…
by John Crudele Let me be the first to ask: Did the White House know that employment reports were being falsified? Last week I reported exclusively that someone at the…
Obama’s biggest failure is that he hobbled the U.S. economy. ObamaCare is part of that, but it goes well beyond ObamaCare. by Daniel Henninger The ObamaCare train wreck is plowing…
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.…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
by Ed Morrissey Three weeks ago, Barack Obama launched a cross-country speaking tour to boost his economic policies, a campaign that included an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.…
NBC News contacted around 20 small businesses and other entities for this report and found that employee hours are being cut to 29 hours because of Obamacare, despite the delay…
by Richard M. Salsman The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (aka, “ObamaCare,” enacted in March 2010) is so “affordable” that more than 1200 companies (half the number) and unions…