The Roff Draft: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
For Joe Biden, the February jobs report provides a reason to celebrate. It looks like America is finally getting back to work. COVID is over. The recovery has begun – if you…
America Needs a Plan to Bring Key Manufacturing Home
For years U.S. lawmakers and special interest groups have promoted policies that drove U.S. manufacturing offshore without people really being aware of it. Higher taxes, workplace regulations, environmental rules with…
Analysis: A $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost California 400,000 Jobs
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon California is projected to have a $15 statewide minimum wage by 2022. Economists project this will lead to a loss of 400,000 jobs,…
A Road Paved With Good Intentions
by Kenneth Bloomquist Standing before an audience of college students, President Obama remarked that “As Americans, we can and should be proud of the progress that our country has made over…
Is Government Eroding America’s Work Ethic?
by Stephen Moore • NY Sun What ever happened to the old-fashioned American work ethic? I ask this because Thursday’s Labor Department report for June found…
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Conservatives have every reason to be optimistic
Freedom and opportunity are on the horizon with a new crop of principled, capable and positive conservatives. by George Landrith In the past few weeks and the next couple…
40 percent of unemployed have quit looking for jobs
by Jeff Cox • CNBC At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don’t have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking. The revelation,…
There is no sugar-coating the weak economy
Regardless of the President’s claims, the economy is weak and the “recovery” is almost invisible to most Americans. Editorial Board • Washington Examiner During his 60 Minutes interview…
Economy Looking Sick … Again
by Megan McArdle Last month, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that gross domestic product had grown at a lead-footed rate of 0.1 percent in the first quarter, economic…
January: a chilly month for jobs
After the U.S. economy added only a disappointing 74,000 jobs in December, the worst month of job creation in three years, economists expected the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on…
Weak Economy: For every new job, five have given up
The recent job report was disappointing on several different levels. The new jobs number was appalling. The number of new jobs, 74,000 doesn’t even keep up with population growth. In…
What about jobs?
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…
Obama signals he’s given up on the economy
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…
Economic Malpractice
It’s amazing how little President Obama has learned about economics in his four and a half years in the White House. Growth, incentives, tax reform, tax increases, private investment, the…
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…