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Congress should fashion a labor policy in response to the recentGulf Coast hurricanes that uses market incentives rather thandirect federal action. It should begin by securing stable homes forevacuees in real communities. The existing Unemployment Insurancesystem is working well to cushion job losses, but the Davis-Baconreversal is a setback for labor market freedom.

Abstract: Since 1996, Congress after Congress has voted to lighten the tax burden on Americans. The current Congress will decide this fall whether to continue this policy or to significantly raise personal income taxes. President Obama has advanced a plan that reverses the long-standing successful policy: The President and his supporters are calling for tax increases, primarily on upper-income taxpayers and businesses— including small businesses, the primary job creators in the country.

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Eighty-five percent of the energy that fuels the American economy is from coal, petroleum, and natural gas. An unavoidable by-product of burning these fuels is carbon dioxide (CO2). Analyses of the Waxman–Markey cap-and-trade bill make clear that CO2-reduction targets will not be met through increases in renewable energy production. So, cutting CO2 means cutting energy use; and cutting energy use means throttling economic growth. The President’s recently proposed clean-energy standard (CES) ...

On June 26, a 1,427-page climate change bill introduced by Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) passed the House by a narrow margin. The bill, also known as Waxman-Markey, includes a number of alarming provisions, chief among them a cap-and-trade program that would attempt to curb global warming by imposing strict upper limits on the emission of six greenhouse gases, with the primary emphasis on carbon dioxide (CO2).

America's workers deserve a more informative debate on SocialSecurity reform than they're getting. Personal retirement accountscan address the impending insolvency of the system and improveretirement incomes to help close the gap between the paymentspromised by the system and the amounts that it is able to pay.

Many District of Columbia students attend schools where they are too often exposed to crime and violence. Policymakers in the District should recognize that school safety is an important problem and should redouble efforts to reduce crime and violence, and D.C. families should be given the power to choose the best schools for their children so that more children can attend school in a safe learning environment.

On June 26, a 1,427-page climate change bill introduced by Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) passed the House by a narrow margin. The bill, also known as Waxman-Markey, includes a number of alarming provisions, chief among them a cap-and-trade program that would attempt to curb global warming by imposing strict upper limits on the emission of six greenhouse gases, with the primary emphasis on carbon dioxide (CO2).

The U.S. economy created 517,000 new jobs in January, up from an upwardly revised 260,000 in December, according ...

The D.C. Parental Choice Incentive Act would enable low-incomeparents in the District of Columbia to enroll their children inprivate schools through a scholarship program administered by theU.S. Department of Education. The need for this reform is clear:Just 6 percent of D.C. 4th graders are proficient in math, and only10 percent are proficient in reading.