More Special Obamacare Treatment — But Not for You
Unions haven’t been able to get special Obamacare subsidies like Members of Congress and their staffs did, but they may not go away empty-handed. The… Read More
Michigan Union Threatens Teachers’ Credit Scores
Most people expect unions to protect workers, not attack their credit ratings. The Michigan Education Association (MEA) does not share these expectations. The union has… Read More
How Obamacare Hurts You If You’re Looking for a Job
America is hurting for jobs. And if you’re looking for one, here’s how Obamacare is hurting you. Obamacare is keeping businesses from hiring. We already… Read More
The Typical Worker Earns More Today Than in 1989
Do American workers have lower living standards today than in 1989? To anyone with a camera GPS library stereo video recorder TV smartphone in his… Read More
How’s the Economy at Your House?
The news media, the President, and Congress should be cautious in trotting out “victims” of the government shutdown. As national media continue the hype, the… Read More
Obamacare Means Jobs on the Chopping Block
“If the health care reform law is not repealed or employer mandate does not go away, we’re going to have to take drastic action,” said… Read More
Watch Out, 20-Somethings: How Obamacare Hits Young People
Obamacare is going to be particularly rough for young adults in their 20s. “Insurance premiums are going to increase for a lot of consumers, but… Read More
Obamacare and Its Impact on Hispanics
Here’s something you won’t hear from the Hispanic media, the mainstream media, or the White House: Among the many terrible side effects of Obamacare is… Read More
Morning Bell: This Fight Is for You
The Heritage Foundation has been talking about defunding Obamacare for some time now, and people may be wondering why. Why did we put up a… Read More
Why Should the Government Prevent Union Members from Earning RAISEs?
A few years ago, President Obama declared he believed “in people getting rich based on performance and what they add in terms of value and… Read More
Where the White House Is Wrong on Immigration Reform
Could the Senate-passed bill on immigration reform decrease the deficit and pad your pocketbook, all while granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants? The answer… Read More
Senator Feinstein to Homeland Security: Stop Enforcing Immigration Law
In a letter to Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano, Senator Diane Feinstein (D–CA) has asked that DHS stop enforcing immigration… Read More
Morning Bell: Is America Still the Land of Labor?
For all the talk these days of how to revive our supposedly moribund American Dream, it took a college dropout-turned-actor to state the obvious. “I believe… Read More
Obamacare Quiz for Employers
If you work somewhere, Obamacare is most likely affecting your employer—and you. In a new paper, Heritage’s Alyene Senger explains how “Obamacare will impose new… Read More
Obamacare Is Coming: Forever 21 Slashes Workers’ Hours
The clothing chain Forever 21 is the latest company cutting full-time workers’ hours. A leaked memo shared last week on social media with the hashtag… Read More
Imports: Let’s Hear More Economic Sense Like This from the President
As President Obama heads to Chattanooga, Tennessee, today to give a speech at an Amazon.com fulfillment facility, he finally seems to be coming around on… Read More
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Morning Bell: 3 Whoppers from Obama’s Big Economic Speech
President Obama sure was excited about his speech yesterday. He talked for more than an hour in sweeping, grandiose terms about everything that’s happened since… Read More
ANALYSIS | Obama’s Economic Speech: Another Summer Rerun
President Obama traveled to Illinois today to give the same tired, worn-out economic speech he’s been giving for almost five years now. Rather than offering… Read More
Footnote Failure: Gap Between Productivity and Pay Is Overstated
Paul Krugman and many others argue that compensation has not grown as fast as productivity. However, most of the apparent gap between the growth… Read More
Morning Bell: Even Unions Are Turning on Obamacare
It’s not every day that union bosses sound like policy experts at The Heritage Foundation. But the beginning of the Obamacare letter from the heads… Read More
Can You Opt Out of Your Union Dues?
I joined the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1245 as a high school student in New Jersey. Having to pay union dues in… Read More
National Employee Freedom Week: Informing Workers of Their Rights
Rob Brough and John Cress are public school teachers in Pennsylvania. When they wanted to quit their teachers union because of its increasing politicization, they… Read More
President Obama, Bangladesh Has Faced Enough Tragedy, Don’t Take Away Jobs, Too
Since late last year, workers in Bangladesh have been beset by tragedy after tragedy. First there was a factory fire that killed over 100 garment… Read More
Raising the Minimum Wage to $9 Would Harm Most Vulnerable Job Seekers
President Obama’s budget proposes raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour. This would hurt the very workers the President wants to help. When the… Read More
Morning Bell: Busting 5 Myths About the Minimum Wage
When someone says “minimum wage,” what comes to mind? Do you think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single parent trying to feed several kids?… Read More
Morning Bell: Fighting Government Cronyism with an Opportunity Agenda
Would you like a raise? For some workers, cronyism prevents receiving raises in pay. In early 2011, a Giant Eagle supermarket in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, wanted… Read More
Chart of the Week: Union Membership Continues to Decline
Union membership fell by 400,000 to the lowest level since the 1930s, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this past week. As a percentage of… Read More
Morning Bell: 13 Tax Increases in 2013
New Year’s Day was tough for taxpayers. Thirteen tax increases kicked in. The deal that Congress and President Obama struck that finally—but only partially—avoided the… Read More
Morning Bell: The Slow Dismantling of Obamacare
Things aren’t going so well for Obamacare. Even Democrats in Congress aren’t huge fans any more. It seems after passing the law and finding out… Read More
Morning Bell: Taxes to Rise on Most American Workers
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called it “a happy start to a new year.” That probably tells you all you need to know about the fiscal… Read More
