labor
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
The Labor Shortage Is a Government-Contrived Scarcity
by Richard Ebeling June 14, 2021Free men in free markets would then be at liberty to improve their conditions without the disrupting and distorting hand of political power and special interest.
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ConstitutionEducationGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Los Angeles Schools Kowtow to Union Demands
by Larry Sand April 20, 2021Children in L.A. are suffering at the hands of the school district and its “labor partner.”
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
What Vexes Small Business More than Taxes and Regulations?
by Jeffrey Tucker September 12, 2019The latest survey of small business contains a surprise. Or maybe it is not a surprise if you are or know a small business owner.
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For decades, vocational training has been waning.
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Most of us both value and take for granted the ability to make decisions about our own lives.
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Right parties gained, giving the right bargaining power, though it was no populist revolution such as Trump or Brexit.
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As they don caps and gowns, endure commencement speeches and take their diplomas, many high school and college graduates face bleak prospects in an economy that grew a dismal 0.5% the first quarter.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Puerto Rico’s Economic Crisis Rooted in History of Feds’ Anti-Trade Policies
by Jesse Hathaway May 22, 2016The missed payment, due on May 1, was just another scene in the slow-motion train wreck that has been termed “Puerto Rico’s economic crisis,” but to call the territory’s status a “crisis” understates the severity of the problem. Over 12 percent of the workforce in Puerto Rico is unemployed, and one out of every four employed Puerto Ricans works for the government, instead of contributing to the territory’s economy.
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For many people, Pittsburgh is defined by the confluence of the Alleghany and Monongahela Rivers, out of which is formed the Ohio River. Three Rivers. But, Pittsburgh was transformed from a disease-infested frontier town into a great city by a different kind of confluence: the combination of coal from West Virginia and iron from Minnesota and the upper peninsula of Michigan.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Obama, Democrats and Bureaucrats Bury America’s Future Under More Federal Regulations
by Paul Driessen February 8, 2016America’s abysmal 0.7% economic growth during the fourth quarter of 2015 meant the annual growth rate was an anemic 2.4% … and average annual growth for the six-year Obama era a pathetic 2.2 percent.