economic stimulus package passed by the US Congress in the wake of the Great Recession
Introduction The United States Constitution does not mention education. From our nation’s infancy, Congress generally adhered to the principle that the federal government had no authority to undertake functions and…
Editors at Issues and Insights highlight former President Ronald Reagan’s prescience. “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism in a people has been by way of medicine.”…
State government prioritized spending federal Covid money over knowing that the money is accomplishing a goal. Cooper and legislators have time to make future expenditures more accountable. With $13.6 billion…
Matthew Foldi writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a potential energy-related scandal for the Biden administration. Republican senators are working to make the electric battery company President Joe Biden…
Economist Casey Mulligan explains in a Federalist column how President Biden’s proposed COVID-19 bill would thwart American economic progress. It comes down to basic economics. President Biden’s plan for federal…
“Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax. … The thing you should keep your eye on is…
Kyle Smith writes for National Review Online about one interesting outcome of former President Barack Obama’s stimulus policies. The New York Times’ big exposé on President Trump’s tax returns flags…
Matt Weidinger writes for Real Clear Policy about good news on the jobs front. Current unemployment rates show the US job market is bouncing back from the coronavirus recession far…
Joy Pullmann writes at the Federalist about former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recap of his tenure at the head of the Obama education team. President Obama’s education secretary Arne…
Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner notes interesting financial news involving General Electric. When the Dow Jones index was born in 1896, General Electric was one of the companies included.…
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon reports on new research focusing on the practical impact of policing. An increase in the number of policemen, driven by an Obama-era…
“Trickle-down economics” is used frequently by critics of supply-side economic policies. But JLF’s Roy Cordato points out that, contrary to conventional wisdom, it is those who believe money should flow…