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Raising the minimum wage will not help low-income workers or singleparents.

Medicare is a vital program for seniors, but is fundamentally unaffordable as it is currently structured because it faces an unfunded obligation of $85.6 trillion. Phasing out the subsidy forupper-income seniors is an obvious first step toward Medicaresustainability. Such a policy would reduce Medicare's long-runexcess costs by over $41 trillion.

Amid the rage over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposals to shrink government worker compensation, one question predominates: Are these workers overpaid? If so, it makes sense for them to accept less, rather than force taxpayers to give up more.

Not only does this feature of the tax system stand as a likelyobstacle to marriage, it can actually discourage a spouse fromentering the workforce.

Is four points the real margin nationally? That’s a good question.

The challenge for America in this new century is not to improve theeconomy, but to strengthen the family and faith in God.

The pandemic changed a lot of assumptions about the U.S. safety net. Maybe a permanent change could come to school lunch programs: maybe all children in Ohio should get free meals at school.

<p><span>It is a pleasure to join this discussion today.</span><a title="footnote 1" href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/brainard20221010a.htm#fn1"><span>1</span></a><a name="f1"></a><span> Inflation is high in the United States and around the world reflecting the lingering imbalance between robust demand and constrained supply caused by the pandemic and Russias war against Ukrai...

The American economy is experiencing the slowest recovery in 70 years. In addition to persistently high unemployment, labor force participation has fallen sharply since the recession began in December 2007. Today, 5.7 million fewer Americans are working or looking for work. This drop accounts for virtually the entire reduction of the unemployment rate since 2009—those not looking for work do not count as unemployed.

Census Bureau estimates show the number of New Jerseyans in poverty climbed by more than 132,000 between 2019 and 2021, with median income down.