Boom — Jobs Aplenty as Economy Steams Ahead
By Washington Examiner The economy is booming. Even the New York Times, no fan of the president, decided that “splendid” and “excellent” were appropriate adjectives to describe Friday’s jobs report…
Jobs Report Shows 3.8 Percent Unemployment, Lowest Since 2000
By Maireid Mcardle • National Review The American economy finished stronger than expected in May, according to the Labor Department’s jobs report, released on Friday. The unemployment rate was expected…
U.S. Back At No. 1 Competitiveness Ranking
By Investor’s Business Daily Economy: Have Donald Trump’s policies had a big impact on the U.S. economy and its competitiveness? The answer, we think, is an obvious yes. Now comes…
Frontiers of Freedom Statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s Latest Losses and the Administration’s Opportunity to Transform the Agency
Washington D.C. – This week, the U.S. Postal Service released its financial report for the midway point of the 2018 fiscal year, which detailed yet another distressing loss of $1.3…
Finnish Failure: Guaranteed Basic Income Punishes Work, Subsidizes Sloth
By Investor’s Business Daily Welfare: The latest “big idea” in the U.S. is the Universal Basic Income — a guaranteed income for all. Progressives of course like the idea, but…
Trump’s Deregulation Binge Shows No Signs Of Ending
Investor’s Business Daily While the media-driven scandals du jour roll on, President Trump quietly goes about reshaping the U.S. economy. Case in point: Last week, Trump directed the EPA to…
Coalition Sounds off to Congress: Get in Tune on the Music Modernization Act
Americans for Tax Reform Today Americans for Tax Reform, along with a number of center-right organizations, sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives in support of the…
When $63 Million Doesn’t Buy Working Toilets
By Mona Charen • National Review When 450 students arrived at Anacostia High School in the District of Columbia’s southeast neighborhood on April 4, they found that few of the…
Trump’s Trade Wins Are a Victory for U.S. Workers
by Stephen Moore • Investor’s Business Daily Is it possible that Donald Trump is winning on trade? Last week, Trump apparently delivered two underappreciated victories as a result of his…
ObamaCare Is The Real Junk Insurance, And It’s Killing People
Investor’s Business Daily We keep hearing about how short-term health plans are “junk insurance.” Really? Compared to ObamaCare’s high-deductible HMOs, or Medicaid’s long and often deadly waits? A new study…
Energy Companies Sued for Being Energy Companies
By Jibran Khan • National Review Numerous jurisdictions are suing energy companies. Not for fraud or white-collar crime, but for the effects of climate change. Bill de Blasio, mayor of…
Uber And Lyft Are Hurting Mass Transit? There’s Nothing Wrong With That
Investor’s Business Daily Chicago recently started taxing users of increasingly popular ride-sharing services so it could spend more on its increasingly unpopular mass transit rail service. This sort of thinking…
3 Reasons Trump Should Have Vetoed The $1.3 Trillion Spending Monstrosity
Investor’s Business Daily Some Republicans were complaining that they didn’t know what was in the massive $1.3 trillion “omnibus” spending bill they voted on this week. But it’s what’s not…
A Chance To Really End Welfare As We Know It
Investor’s Business Daily Thanks to a revived economy spinning out jobs, the number of people on food stamps dropped by 2 million people last year, according to a new report.…
Tax Cuts Work — Just Ask Small Businesses
Brian Ellis • Investor’s Business Daily Employers have until Thursday to implement new tax withholding guidelines, which determine how much they withhold from pay for federal taxes. Fortunately for many…