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- Desperately Seeking Bipartisan Tax Simplification - March 25, 2010
- WASHINGTON--With President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress required to pass legislation this year to prevent the Bush tax cuts from expiring on December...
- Why the SEIU Wants Health Reform - March 18, 2010
- WASHINGTON--The largest health care labor union in the United States, the Service Employees International, is using its 2.2 million members' hard-earned dues to finance...
- Weekly Economic Report - Hudson Institute - March 15, 2010
- Paycheck Fairness Is a Misnomer - March 11, 2010
- WASHINGTON-Lucky women. They face an 8% unemployment rate, compared with 10% for men. Women are riding out the recession more easily, so what better time for Congress to...
- Washington's "High Road" to Robbery - March 4, 2010
- WASHINGTON-Many Americans are intent on saving money, making every penny count. But here in Washington, even though President Obama has promised to cut the deficit,...
- Obamacare 2.0 Is a Job Killer - February 23, 2010
- WASHINGTON-Fifteen million Americans are unemployed and actively looking for work, and millions more have given up looking. Countless others are underemployed. Many...
- Obama Goes Nuclear, In a Good Way - February 18, 2010
- What a difference a year can make. On Tuesday President Obama announced that the Department of Energy would guarantee $8.3 billion of loans to Southern Company, enabling...
- It's Time for Volcker, But Not Bank Taxes - February 11, 2010
- WASHINGTON-Valentine's Day is approaching, and you know who won't be getting roses and chocolates - bankers. Although this week President Obama claims not to begrudge...
- Job Creation vs. Ideology - February 4, 2010
- WASHINGTON-Nothing demonstrates the hollow nature of President Obama's promise "to do what it takes to create jobs," as he said at the White House, than the energy...
- A New Approach to Health Reform - January 28, 2010
- WASHINGTON - For a study in contrasts, look no further than President Obama's State of the Union Address. The president, in a spasm of fiscal responsibility, asked...
- It's Time to Elevate Entrepreneurs - January 21, 2010
- WASHINGTON-When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address next Wednesday evening, many Americans will be hoping he will offer help on the employment front....
- Obama Regulates Away Jobs - January 11, 2010
- It's ironic that just as the Department of Labor announced on Friday a loss of 85,000 jobs in December, the lead headline in the New York Times read "EPA Seeks Tighter...
- Don't Ignore Public Pensions - January 7, 2010
- WASHINGTON--With Americans understandably preoccupied with high unemployment and a modest outlook for economic recovery, another worrisome problem has been building, all...
- Budget Deficits Have Consequences - December 31, 2009
- It's New Year's Eve, on the threshold of the second decade of the 21st Century. Like the champagne that will be flowing liberally tonight, congressional spending has no...
- Kiss Your Health Plan Goodbye - December 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON-As the Senate votes this morning on a revised health "reform" bill from the Democratic leadership, it's worth recalling President Obama's repeated promise...
- The High Cost of Health Reform - December 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON-Last night, speaking about the health "reform" bill to ABC's Charles Gibson, President Obama declared, "If we don't pass it, here's the guarantee....your...
- Climate Change: Another Option - December 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON--As world leaders meet in Copenhagen to discuss reducing greenhouse gas emissions, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has positioned herself, with President...
- Job Creation: The Seen and Unseen - December 3, 2009
- With data on November's unemployment rate and payroll jobs creation due to be released Friday by the Labor Department, President Obama convenes a meeting today at the...
- Big Labor's Multi-Billion Dollar Bailout - November 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON--It's Thanksgiving, the start of the holidays, the season of giving-and getting-and many labor union officials have a lot to be thankful for. Some members of...
- 'Sick Leave' Mandates We Can Ill Afford - November 19, 2009
- "Never let a good crisis go to waste," said President Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanual. For Democrats, the H1N1 pandemic is as good a crisis as they come.Congress...
- Health Reform and Job Destruction - November 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON-As the Senate turns to passage of its version of health care "reform," members must consider how to avoid the misguided job-killing provisions of the House's...
- The Public Option Opt-Out Is No Panacea - October 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON-Pity poor Harry Reid. The Senate Majority Leader has been grappling with the challenge of combining the two Senate health care plans into one, legislation...
- Higher Education and Economic Mobility - October 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON--With the national unemployment rate at 9.8% and over 15 million Americans out of work, students about to leave high school are wondering if they will be able...
- Health Reform Won't Benefit Women - October 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON-The Senate's Health Committee holds a hearing today, Thursday, to spotlight the effect on women of pending "health reform" legislation. Some witnesses,...
- The Baucus Bill: An October Trick - October 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON--It's October, the month of trick or treat, and Congress is trying to come up with a trick. The Congressional Budget Office's estimate of Senate Finance...
- Job Creation Bills Will Kill Them - October 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON--Congressional Democratic leaders assert that several major pieces of pending legislation will create jobs. In fact, the bills are more likely to increase...
- The Truth About Income Inequality - September 24, 2009
- Ask almost any Democratic politician the most important economic facts about income distribution in America, and you are almost certain to hear the following three...
- The True Cost of the Baucus Bill - September 18, 2009
- The health care proposal released by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has received criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. Only the Congressional...
- Don't Buy Specter's EFCA "Compromise" - September 17, 2009
- In Pittsburgh on Tuesday at the AFL-CIO convention, Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Democrat who left the Republican Party last spring, produced a new version of...
- Nothing New With Obama's Health Plan - September 10, 2009
- Last night President Obama finally presented his own health care proposal to a joint session of Congress. Those who were hoping for something new were disappointed....
- Union Bigs Get Best Deals - New York Daily News - September 7, 2009
- How Safe Are Workers' Retirements? - Hudson Inst. - September 4, 2009
- Don't Buy Unions' Labor Day Bluster - September 3, 2009
- Next Monday, Labor Day, is the occasion for labor unions to celebrate the contributions their members have made to American prosperity. With union membership down to 8%...
- Obama's Excessively Optimistic Deficit Projections - August 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON-Much in America has changed since Woodstock, the pot-smoking outdoors pop concert that took place in New York State 40 years ago this month. The Soviet Union...
- Uncle Sam Becomes Peeping Tom - National Review - August 20, 2009
- Buried in the 1,017 pages of the House Democrats’ health-care bill is a little-noticed provision that for the first time could give the government access to the...
- Obama's Health Care Bogeyman Is Obama - August 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON--In a health-care town hall meeting in Portsmouth , New Hampshire this week , President Obama declared: "Because the way politics works sometimes is that...
- The High Cost of Medical Malpractice - August 6, 2009
- The next time you visit your doctor, scrutinize the bill carefully. What it won't tell you is that about ten cents of every dollar paid for health care goes to the...
- The Healthcare Bankruptcy Myth - July 30, 2009
- Few figures in American life have suffered as publicly as Elizabeth Edwards, a cancer survivor whose son was killed in a car accident, the betrayed wife of presidential...
- 'Rich' Taxes Cripple Small Towns - July 23, 2009
- VEVAY, Indiana -Here in the heartland of America, residents of Vevay (population 1,700) are united against tax increases that congressional Democrats have proposed to...
- A Very Unhealthy Health Bill - July 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON-The same week as the federal budget deficit exceeded $1 trillion for the first time, three committees of the House of Representatives are considering a...