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President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced a debt limit deal Saturday, with a vote expected Wednesday in the House of Representatives.

Heritage Foundation experts scrutinized the text of the 99-page bill.

LaPrecisha Dameece Rector passed away in Caddo Mills, This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Services by Lynch Funeral Home.

The abortion rate keeps dropping. The latest numbers from the CDC, released last week, show that the abortion rate is the lowest it’s been since 1973, the year the Supreme Court manufactured a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. This raises two important questions: What is the cause of the decline in abortion? And how can we build on this success to protect the right to life for the hundreds of thousands of unborn lives that still fall victim to abortion each year?There’s no Iro...

A Valentine’s Day present from the federal government? It could happen. No, I’m not talking about flowers or candy. I’m talking about getting rid of the “marriage penalty” that’s built into one of our biggest welfare programs. That program is the Earned Income Tax Credit. The EITC is the nation’s second largest means-tested cash welfare program. EITC — unlike other welfare programs — is structured to give incentives to work. But reforms are needed to help it better achieve that...

Defining America's "Poor."

The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611), which recently passed the Senate, provides amnesty to illegal immigrants and creates a massive "guest worker" for life program. Earlier this month, The Heritage Foundation released an analysis calculating that the bill, if enacted, likely would result in 103 million immigrants obtaining legal status or entering in the U.S.

A battle over the debt ceiling hinges increasingly on the prospect of strengthening work requirements for some government benefits, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) calling it a necessity and many Democrats balking at even the most modest proposals.

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the government’s second-largest means-tested cash benefit.

"Safe Sex": Time To Abstain