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…
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…
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…
Obamacare Will Foster a Part-Time Job Economy
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…
A Jobless Recovery Is a Phony Recovery
More people have left the workforce than got a new job during the recovery—by a factor of nearly three. by Mortimer Zuckerman In recent months, Americans have heard reports out…
Jobs numbers still aren’t working
by Terry Keenan The most recent jobs report had a “robust” 195,000 new positions created last month as the unemployment rate held steady at 7.6 percent. Hallelujah! Unfortunately, the problem…
Recovery woes: America’s second-largest employer is a temp agency
by Ashe Schow Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. Friday’s disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high,…
Obamacare is slowing economic growth and costing Americans jobs
With the recent news that the Obama Administration will postpone the healthcare mandate on employers (but not on individuals) until after the mid-term elections, a new Gallup poll of 603…
ObamaCare now even more unpopular … and with good reason
by Stephen F. Hayes It’s been one year since the Supreme Court decision that allowed Obama administration officials to begin implementing the Affordable Care Act, and the frequency and volume…
More Evidence That ObamaCare Is Costing Jobs
‘It’s about jobs.” That was how then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described ObamaCare shortly before President Obama signed it into law. Turns out she was right, although not in the way…
Wind power has failed to deliver what it promised
The wind-power industry is expensive, passes costs on to the consumer and does not create many jobs in return. The claims of the green lobby that wind farms will generate abundant…
Obama Energy Policy Prevents Economic Growth
by U.S. Representative Tom Cole If only President Obama would take his approach to energy production and apply it to the national debt, we’d be down to 2007 levels…
Americans Are Migrating to States with Lower Taxes and Less Regulation
by John Merline Americans are migrating from less-free liberal states to more-free conservative states, where they are doing better economically, according to a new study published Thursday by George…
Carbon Taxes and Leprosy: The opportunity of a life time? Who are they kidding?
by George Landrith It is not surprising that there are liberals in Washington proposing new stealth carbon taxes. What is surprising is that a few “conservatives” support the idea.…