Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced Thursday that Central States Teamsters’ private union pension will receive $35.8 billion in taxpayers’ money. Behind this bailout is… Read More
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The Inflation Reduction Act gives the IRS an additional $80 billion to hire 87,000 more agents with the hope of bringing in about $200 billion… Read More
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If Illinois residents think things can’t get any worse economically, just wait. On Nov. 8, they’ll vote on an amendment to the state’s constitution that… Read More
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President Joe Biden claimed that Democrats will protect Social Security and that Republicans threaten its future in a speech Tuesday in Hallandale Beach, Florida. But… Read More
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The Social Security Administration announced Thursday that beneficiaries will receive an 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment next year. That’s good news for seniors today who—like all other… Read More
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You know the Biden administration’s special-interest giveaways are out of control when an additional $4.5 billion is met with hardly any criticism. The Congressional Budget… Read More
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a bill last week forcing California taxpayers to pay up to $400 million of public and private employees’… Read More
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Bound by the terms of a pre-COVID-19 pandemic contract, railroad workers have felt overworked and undercompensated in recent years. Having come within hours of a… Read More
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Since the pandemic started, the federal government has erased over $100 billion of student loan debt through a moratorium on loan repayments. President Joe Biden… Read More
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While younger people have been less affected by the COVID-19 virus and have even benefited from some of the pandemic’s effects on the economy, they… Read More
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The Biden administration has promised not to raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 a year. And despite estimates from official congressional scorekeepers that the… Read More
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Federal employees’ unions decried the Trump administration for its executive orders aimed at improving accountability and integrity within the federal workforce. The American Federation of… Read More
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Between out-of-control inflation, ongoing supply chain struggles, the crisis at the southern border, foreign policy concerns, exploding energy prices, rising crime, and a high likelihood… Read More
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Congress is set to vote this week on HR 6929 to retroactively bail out the pensions of about 20,000 former Delphi auto-parts employees who had… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Unlike Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program for retirees, which has a highly predictable financial outlook, the financial well-being of Social Security’s Disability Insurance… Read More
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Our Social Security program is running dry. Policymakers have no plan to fix it, and generations of Americans have been duped into believing it’s a… Read More
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It goes without saying that bailing out bad actors is not equitable. So, it’s no wonder the Biden administration left any mention of a nearly… Read More
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Sixteen years ago, Alaska enacted a commonsense, fiscally responsible pension reform bill that put new hires into a defined contribution pension plan as opposed to… Read More
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Life should never be reduced to economics. Yet, in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that could overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion… Read More
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President Joe Biden finally released his budget request for fiscal year 2023 on Monday, almost two months late. Unsurprisingly, the Biden budget is bloated with… Read More
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Work is fundamental to human flourishing. Work determines individuals’ incomes and total economic output, and it’s also a core component of meaning and contentment in… Read More
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The way we work has always been evolving, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated change. Progress that might otherwise have taken over a decade to achieve… Read More
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With inflation at a 40-year high, politicians understandably want to ease the pain. The good news is that federal lawmakers can help by paring back… Read More
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Social Security is extremely popular, but most people don’t realize how much more income and opportunity they could have without Social Security’s high taxes, lack… Read More
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COVID-19 is not to blame for four-decade-high inflation and an unprecedented labor shortage. Rather, bad government policies, originally enacted as part of a stated attempt… Read More
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Unable to force a $15 federal minimum wage across the entire country, the Biden administration issued an executive order, now implemented, requiring a $15 minimum… Read More
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Inflation rose 7% over the past 12 months, making it the largest increase in 40 years. Much of this inflation, which has been driven by… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Now almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and after $6.6 trillion in total federal spending on it—the equivalent of $51,600 per household—some policymakers… Read More
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According to a study by Upwork, 59 million Americans, or 1 in 3 workers, performed independent work in 2021. And 9 out of 10 of… Read More
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Unfathomable. Inexplicable. Unparalleled. The current labor market is unlike anything America has experienced before, and unlike anything one could have fathomed at the start of… Read More
