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The Economy Hits Home: What Makes the Economy Grow?

The real impact Obamacare will have on the uninsured is not what many Americans might have expected.

For every black child whose economic condition has worsened in the past six years, six have risen out of poverty...

Akron has agreed to spend up to $1.6 million for a consulting company to decide where to spend their $145 million ARPA windfall.

The two current economic stimulus plans clearly reflect the twomajor views of government's role in economic planning. While bothplans transfer income to low- and moderate-income taxpayers throughrebates and both assist the unemployed, serious questions have beenraised about whether increased government spending is the best toolfor boosting economic activity.

Economic inequality has become the left’s great hope for recovering its political integrity after the Obamacare disaster. President Obama, trying to change the subject, has latched onto the issue and is sure to make many more speeches about it in the New Year. New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, promises to make that great city an experimental lab for progressive ideas aimed at curing inequality.

Not only does this feature of the tax system stand as a likelyobstacle to marriage, it can actually discourage a spouse fromentering the workforce.

The Congressional Budget Office had more bad news on Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid's health-care bill this week -- even if some media outlets missed it.

The Great Resignation has shifted to the Great Reshuffling, leaving many employers scrambling to find help.

Every year at this time, the Census Bureau announces the official U.S. poverty rate. And every year, the same fruitless debate takes place.