[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVhVxJyFPRY[/youtube] Yesterday, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) outlined a seven point common sense plan for job creation here at the Heritage Foundation. Item number… Read More
The House Financial Services Committee yesterday OK’d a key part of Barney Frank’s agenda for reform of the financial industry yesterday, voting to 31-27 to… Read More
The unemployment rate when President Obama took office last January was 7.6 percent and credit markets were in the throes of a global contagion. He… Read More
Today the White House will host a Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth featuring such leftist luminaries as Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. Yesterday The… Read More
As the Congress prepares to address the death tax in the waning weeks of December, one argument undergirds the primary defense the tax. The argument… Read More
Heritage expert Alison Fraser on jobs
Today, President Obama is hosting a jobs summit at the White House with union bosses and corporate CEOs to discuss ways to accelerate job creation… Read More
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on a bill that would permanently extend the estate tax (known better as the death tax)… Read More
Congress doesn’t want you to know it, but they are about to raise the debt limit because they’ve spent the full $12.1 trillion allowed on… Read More
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on a bill that would permanently extend the estate tax (known better as the death tax)… Read More
The U.S. House of Representative could vote as early as Wednesday of this week to increase the estate tax (known popularly as the death tax)…. Read More
As if the Administration’s stimulus program didn’t have enough problems, the Government Accountability Office has now issued a report raising concerns on the handling of… Read More
Organized labor has demonstrated why workers should spend some time this Thanksgiving giving thanks for the secret ballot. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and… Read More
In the midst of a downturn, it’s easy to lose perspective. It feels at the moment like America’s position in the world is slipping and… Read More
This past Sunday marked an important anniversary for the American economy. On November 22, 2006, the United States and Colombia signed the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion… Read More
The Associated Press reports: Employers already are squeezed by tight credit, rising health care costs, wary consumers and a higher minimum wage. Now, the surging… Read More
“Optimism is important for anything in life-to realize that our condition is never final.” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLEJ-HyIMcM[/youtube] With unbridled and infectious optimism, Jack Kemp (1935-2009) championed hope,… Read More
Leaders in the House of Representatives recently discussed the possibility of extending the death tax at its current rate and exemption levels for one year… Read More
Unemployment has risen above 10 percent and no one in Washington seems to understand what is going on. Yesterday, a little noticed release from the… Read More
Congress needs someone like Mike Rowe to do the dirty job that politicians won’t touch. Our $1.4-trillion (and rising!) annual deficit and $12-trillion accumulated debt… Read More
The latest proposal to pay for a government takeover of the health care system is to increase the Medicare tax for those that earn more… Read More
In an era when legislation routinely exceeds 1,000 pages, the bill introduced by Sen. John Thune yesterday — at seven lines — doesn’t look like… Read More
The AFL-CIO, in concert with some Congressional leaders, has proposed yet another tax hike to fund Washington’s ongoing explosion of spending. This latest collaboration between… Read More
It’s official: U.S. taxpayers did not get a good deal when they bailed out AIG last year. That was the conclusion of a report released… Read More
The government’s Web site that is supposed to tell taxpayers how their stimulus dollars are being spent, and which spends $84 million per year to… Read More
As we reported last week, 2009 will mark the first time ever in American history that the majority of union members work for federal, state,… Read More
Not very often is losing $1.2 billion good news but that’s the way General Motors is spinning its third quarter earnings report. GM claims its… Read More
Don’t look now, but there’s no independent Inspector General at the Federal Housing Finance Agency — which is responsible for overseeing federally-run finance giants Fannie… Read More
President Obama’s trip to Asia this week comes at a critical economic time for American workers. With unemployment eclipsing 10 percent, it’s clear that the… Read More
Congress soon will seal the fate of federal death taxes. If Congress acts by doing nothing, then the federal tax rate on estates will fall… Read More
