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President Obama has repeatedly claimed that his economic stimulus bill will "create or save" 3.5 million new jobs by 2011, including 600,000 jobs by the end of this summer.

Researchers have paid little attention to the state-by-state impact of a $15-per-hour minimum wage. Such a measure was so far from the policy mainstream that few economists bothered considering it. Now, several cities and states have required $15-per-hour starting wages, prompting the need to consider the policy’s effects on jobs and the economy at large.

The EPA's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) proposes an unprecedented expansion of federal ability to regulate CO2 emissions. Its limits on CO2 emissions would impose significantcosts on virtually the entire American economy. Even under a fairlyoptimistic set of assumptions, the economic impact of the ANPR islikely to be serious for the job market, household budgets, and theeconomy overall.

Big Labor’s been busy this election cycle. Its legislative agenda includes many standard liberal issues, such as raising the minimum wage and restricting free trade.

Evidence continues to mount that government-funded preschool fails to fulfill the promises of its proponents.

Saving the American Dream is The Heritage Foundation’s plan to fix the debt, cut spending and, above all, restore prosperity. It balances the nation’s budget within a decade—and keeps it balanced. It reduces the debt and cuts government in half. It eliminates government-mandated health care and fully funds our national defense. It squarely confronts Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, the three so-called entitlement programs, which together account for 43 percent of federal spending t...

This Heritage Foundation report investigates the 10-year economicand fiscal impact of a sample proposal to abolish double taxationon corporate dividends, and finds that such a proposal would, bythe year 2012, improve growth in the nation's gross domesticproduct, add hundreds of jobs to the economy, increase investment,strengthen growth in disposable income, and add to the nation'scapitol stock.

Ed013003c: Tax Reform Benefits Everyone

From FY 2001 to FY 2009, Congress appropriated $5.7 billion infunding for fire grants. Using panel data from 1999 to 2006 formore than 10,000 fire departments, this evaluation usesfixed-effects regressions to estimate the impact of fire grants onfour different measures of fire casualties: firefighter deaths,firefighter injuries, civilian deaths, and civilian injuries.

The unemployment rate for college graduates fell to a pre-pandemic level at the same time President Biden is citing the COVID-19 pandemic as reason to forgive student loan debt.