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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' union membership rate, or percentage of wage and salary workers who belong to unions, edge...

Raising the minimum wage may cause some low-income workers toreceive fewer government benefits.

Obamacare will burden already struggling businesses with new costs and punish individuals for not having high-paying jobs.

Current immigration practices, both legal and illegal, operate like a system of trans-national welfare outreach bringing millions of fiscally dependent individuals into the U.S.

Three examples of how the Bush plan would affect regular people.

Abstract: On January 1, 2013, the Bush tax cuts will expire and other new taxes that congressional leaders have recognized would damage the economy will take effect. President Barack Obama’s proposal to increase taxes on only “high-income earners” would also be economically destructive, reducing economic output by an average of $196 billion per year over 2013–2022 relative to current tax policy. Congress and the President would better serve the country by reforming the tax code in a pro-...

Recent legislation included big increases in federal funding for the deployment of broadband, which is increasingly critical to daily life, but...

Both of the current House and Senate health care bills disproportionately burden younger, healthier Americans with higher insurance premiums. To ensure that these young people buy health insurance anyway, Congress has decided to nudge them into purchasing insurance by enforcing a penalty for those who fail to buy coverage. Heritage Foundation analysts estimate that many under age 35 will opt out of buying insurance altogether, choosing to pay the penalty instead. If younger workers do not join t...

Imagine trying to work out the family budget with two different sets of books when they show a dramatically different bottom line. Which could you rely on? Welcome to the world of federal data - which can drive researchers and policy-makers crazy. For example, on Nov. 30, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the new consumer expenditures figures for 2003. The Labor Department says more than 115 million households spent an average of $40,817 on goods and services last year, totaling some $4.7 ...