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The April jobs report shows a labor market that continues toweaken. These employment figures also demonstrate that this is thewrong time for the Administration's Detroit bailout strategy.

The Heritage Foundation reported that the average American has lost $4,200 in average income since President Biden took office, wiping out gains made under his predecessor.

A government’s budget reflects its priorities. Choices about what to tax and what to subsidize follow from legislators’ priorities about what to discourage and what to encourage. Taxes, transfer spending, and debt financing reflect distributional concerns about who should bear the costs of government and who should receive additional benefits.

The misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, H.R. 800) is organized labor's top legislative priority. The portion of the bill that ends union organizing elections has received the most attention and criticism. No less dangerous, however, is a binding arbitration provision that would empower government officials to set workers' wages and working conditions. Binding arbitration could also force workers into multiemployer union pension plans, many of which are severely underfunded and can...

From the commentary: Biden clearly never learned this lesson from history. Now would be a good time to start.

Commentary When it comes to energy independence—a key component of global stability—the America of 2022 could learn a lot ...

A new study on charters shows their successes.

The Davis-Bacon Act requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage in the same locality. However, the prevailing wages estimated by the federal gov­ernment are highly inaccurate. In some counties, for example, Davis-Bacon wage determinations are just one-third of market wages. In other counties, they are more than 75 percent above prevailing market wages. In some states, Davis-Bacon rates are actually below the minimum wage.

The net effect of Kerry's tax plan is a slower economy and jobcreation significantly below potential.

Due to union organizers' techniques, card checks often do notreflect workers' free and considered choice about unionmembership.