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Executive Summary Over the past half-century, the American union movement has moved into government. Despite highly publicized efforts to curtail collective bargaining powers of government unions in Ohio and Wisconsin, almost all changes to government collective bargaining statutes over the past 20 years have increased, not decreased, the powers enjoyed by government unions.

Ending the double taxation of dividends also is an inherent andnecessary component of fundamental tax reform.

Americans should ignore false promises to keep “Medicare as we know it”—the program is already changing.

Trending topics in agriculture are solar energy and foreign ownership of agricultural land and were highlighted during a TFB forum.

Table 1: Estimated Economic Impact of S. 2191 Table 2: Changes in Household Energy Prices Due to S. 2191 Chart: Economic Impact by Congressional District Workers and families in the state of Indiana may be wondering how climate change legislation before Congress would affect their income, their jobs, and the cost of energy.

Table 1: Estimated Economic Impact of S. 2191 Table 2: Changes in Household Energy Prices Due to S. 2191 Chart: Economic Impact by Congressional District Workers and families in the state of Virginia may be wondering how climate change legislation before Congress would affect their income, their jobs, and the cost of energy.

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.

In its final report, the 9/11 Commission made 40 different recommendations for improving America's homeland security. Congress responded by passing the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which implemented the report's most significant proposals. Recently, the House of Representatives passed the Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recom­mendations Act of 2007 (H.R. 1) as part of the Speaker of the House's "100 Hours" agenda. H.R. 1 claims to follow th...

The EPA's conclusion that Americans will be better shielded fromthe pain of capping carbon by Waxman-Markey draft legislation isfantasy. Two major independent model analyses of the legislationhave already confirmed this reality.

As The Heritage foundation predicted, the stimulus bill is neithertimely nor targeted. Only time will tell if it is temporary.