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Trade Agreement Will Accomplish Nothing if Ports Aren’t Open
Teaser: Currently, employment at ports is governed by the National Labor Relations Act, while employment at airlines and railroads is overseen by the Railway Labor Act. Labor disruptions at the ports...
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New York Times Explains Gender Wage Gap
Teaser: Feminists complain that women are victims of discrimination who earn 78 cents on a man’s dollar. This misleading figure compares earnings of full-time working women to those of men,...
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3 Reasons Democrats Should Find Someone Other Than Hillary
Teaser: Clinton should not be the Democrat nominee for president for at least three reasons. She fails to articulate an improvement on President Obama’s domestic- and foreign-policy agenda. She did a...
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Does America Have Less Economic Mobility? Part 3
Teaser: In the first installment of this series on America’s economic mobility, I noted that the conventional wisdom that the U.S. has worse economic mobility than other countries was firmed up by two...
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The Young Lose From a Higher Minimum Wage
Teaser: Over half of those who earn at or below the minimum wage are between the ages of 16 and 24, many in the hospitality and leisure sector. Since the majority of those earning minimum wage are...
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Unpaid Internships: Do As Congress Says, Not As It Does
Teaser: Many Washington politicians seem unable to realize the economic tradeoffs that would result from raising the federal minimum wage. Yet they understand the negative consequences they would feel...
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Community Colleges Offer Low-Cost Path To Well-Paying Jobs
Teaser: A four-year college is not the only path to a promising career. Community colleges offer low-cost training for high-paying careers in fields including health services and information...
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How Government Debt Disinherited the Next Generation…and How To Fix It
Teaser: Burdened with an obligation to pay government debt they did not incur, young Americans – those born between the early 1980s and the beginning of the 21stcentury, or millennials – begin life at...
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College Grads are Drowning in Student Loan Debt
Teaser: This month, as 1.8 million newly-minted bachelor’s degrees are handed out, most graduates will be coming off the stage with much more than a fancy piece of paper. Seventy percent will take an...
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Education Reform That Works
Teaser: In June, 3.3 million American teenagers will graduate from high school. Just 80 percent of them graduate in four years, a share that declines to 65 percent among African-Americans. Yet in the...
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Shale 2.0: The Coming Big-Data Revolution in America’s Shale Oil Fields
Teaser: Legislators have yet to recognize and incorporate into law the far-reaching implications of how the energy landscape has fundamentally changed. U.S. energy law remains anchored in the...
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How Occupational Licensing Harms the Young
Teaser: Occupational licensing, the requirement that people pass tests to gain government permission to work, is making it harder for young people to begin their careers. By keeping young people out of...
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Regulation's Stranglehold On Millennials' Futures
Teaser: Millennials are inheriting a bleak fiscal future. How can we change Washington’s direction in order to paint a brighter future for America’s next generation? Perhaps the easiest way to begin...
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Millennials Can't Afford to Ignore Washington
Teaser: Tens of Millions Americans between the ages of 18 and 30, commonly known as Millennials, are about to enter the workforce. However, Washington has ensured that their economic situation for the...
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The Social Security Trustees’ Respectable Projection Record (Part 1)
Teaser: The Social Security annual trustees' report has become increasingly telling of the program's financial condition. This piece reviews some of the critiques pertaining to the trustees' projection...
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The Social Security Trustees’ Projection Process: Imperfect but Indispensable...
Teaser: The Social Security trustees' projection process has faced much scrutiny. In his second article of a two-part series, Blahous summarizes the criticisms of this process and ultimately draws...
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A Conservative Opportunity Agenda
Teaser: There is an emgering consensus from both political parties that Washington needs to address economic opportunity in the form of public policy. Yet, conservative approaches to this country's...
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Maryland Should Let HBO’s Veep Go to Hollywood
Teaser: States that choose to enter the competitive arena of film tax credits are set up for losing battles. Unless they continually increase their incentives, film companies will simply pack up and...
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Conservatives Are Wrong About NSA Spying
Teaser: I am surprised that so many traditional conservatives are putting aside their normal defense of civil liberties and distrust of the government to support the NSA’s activities. Historically,...
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The Case For Legislative Impact Accounting
Teaser: Estimates of the total cost of regulations vary widely, but by any account, they represent a significant cost to the economy. We propose reforming the legislative and regulatory processes to...
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