Unemployment
States Have Varied Responses to Unemployment Benefits
State have different responses to the future of unemployment benefits.
States Focus on Getting People Back to Work
As businesses reopen, people wonder what will happen to their unemployment benefits if they decide to not return to work when their employers ask them.
The HEROES Act Will Prevent Americans From Getting Back to Work
The $3 trillion HEROES Act epitomizes everything that is wrong with the D.C. borrow-and-spend mindset.
A Closed Economy is a Health Issue Too
A closed economy causes many healthcare problems and points to the need to reopening our country's businesses as soon as possible.
CBO Budget Outlook Projects Debt Disaster is on the Horizon
On January 28, 2019, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook for 2019 to 2029 and unsurprisingly, the United States’ fiscal outlook remains dreadful.
The War on (Minimum) Wage Payers
Our nation’s Founding Fathers never intended to put the government in charge of picking winners and losers, but as citizens look more and more to Uncle Sam for special favors and handouts, that is precisely what is happening.
Declaration of Dependence
A February 4, 2013 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report confirmed what taxpayer watchdog groups such as Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) have been warning about for years:
It's All in the Numbers
Last week, we got the jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). They reported a job gain of 162,000 for the month of July. There wasn’t a lot of hoopla about it because the numbers were pretty pathetic.