It all seemed to make sense. Americans were hard workers, but jobs were scarce. So the 1930s Great Depression’s severe unemployment levels seemed the time for the national government to create a New Deal of welfare programs to assist those…
Rarely is the sequence of cause and effect so clear. The current surge of migrants at our southern border is the direct result of the Biden administration eliminating the Trump rules that had once tamed the flow. Gone are the…
Thousands of American workers are facing shrinking wages as Biden-fueled inflation runs rampant across the country. Inflation has cut real wages by 1.7 percent from 2020, slashing Americans’ buying power as the economy begins to come back to life. The…
Controversy erupted Tuesday over a comment made by economist Art Laffer regarding hourly wages. Asked by Fox News anchor Sandra Smith if the minimum wage should rise, Laffer replied that many minimum wage workers “aren’t worth $15.” Some people latched…
America’s response to COVID-19 has proven to be more harmful to young people than the virus itself. Many young adults are opting out of pursuing post-secondary education and experiencing prolonged bouts of unemployment thanks to changes brought about by the…
I just got back after three days on the road in Ohio and a little bit of West Virginia. I regularly make rounds of food production plants of all sorts to inspect the processes they have asked to be certified…
Spain is the latest country talking about adopting a universal basic income, or UBI, program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many libertarians, including myself, have always been open to the idea of moving away from traditional welfare programs to…
If there is one thing intellectuals from across the conservative ideological spectrum seem to agree upon, it is that market libertarians are unsympathetic to the plight of ordinary people. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) points to how the Joads were treated in John…
In recent years, the “perpetually offended” movement has infiltrated higher education with the invention of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and cancel culture (events being interrupted and/or cancelled due to students protesting those who share different ideological or political views). In…
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