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Like the idea of paying more for less? If a certain piece of legislation now before Congress becomes law, we might have no choice.

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...

Recent research shows that there are important, unrealized distortions and costs associated with extending dependent coverage to age 26.

The Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division uses highly inaccurate methods to estimate prevailing wages for the Davis-Bacon Act. Davis-Bacon rates in Virginia (except for the Washington, D.C., Metro area) are 26 percent below market wages.

Households headed by persons without a high school diploma impose a significant fiscal burden on other taxpayers.

How safe is the 2022 Subaru Ascent? Here's why it's only the second-safest midsize SUV and why customers should buy the updated 2023 Ascent 3-Row SUV instead.

The new White House proposal to impose a Medicare tax on investment income would reduce demand for investment, which is the last thing that the economy needs right now.

Millions of American seniors have worked hard their entire lives in the belief that they would receive health insurance benefits, including coverage for prescription drugs, from their employer after retirement. But if Congress does create a universal Medicare drug entitlement based on bills now before a House-Senate conference, the retiree drug coverage many seniors were promised by their employers will be in peril.

The analysis presented in this paper indicates that child poverty is more often the result of low levels of parental work than of parents' low hourly wage rates.

Recent reports of elevated crime rates have led commentators andpublic officials to speculate about what factors are to blame.Social scientists need time to collect and adequately analyze therecent crime data to develop explanations for the rise. Socialcritics, however, are not right to claim that the BushAdministration's reduction of subsidies to local law enforcementfor their routine responsibilities, through such programs as theOffice of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), is to...