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Freedom shouldn’t mean, as Janis Joplin put it, “having nothing left to lose.” Freedom should mean that the goodness of decisions such as choosing to work are rewarded.

John and Donny continue their exploration of think tanks in episode #43 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, the John Locke Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute.

Brian Perry is a college-educated law clerk who worked at the Providence, Rhode Island-based Lovett, Scheffrin, and Harnett law firm for more than 25 years before being laid off in 2008. Since then, Perry has relentlessly searched for quality work, but he’s been unable to find anything stable. With minimal income, no solid job leads, and costs beyond what he could manage, Perry was forced to sell his home a few weeks ago.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its January 2015 report this morning, and on the surface the situation looks good for the Obama administration: 257,000 jobs were added in January, wages improved, and the number of full-time workers increased. The unemployment rate did go up by 0.1 percentage point, to 5.7 percent, but analysts agree this is the result of more Americans looking for jobs, not a slowing economy.

The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.

The unemployment rate dropped dramatically just before the 2012 presidential election. Then we find out the stats were bogus. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

The Democratric Party controlled mainstream media reported the November unemployment report as “better than expected.”  But in reality it showed that America is stumbling along into a second Great Depression under “Obamanomics”…

Jobs growth has not even kept pace with growth in the working-age population, must less restored jobs lost in the recession. The working-age population increased by 206,000 in September while…

September’s monthly payrolls report showed once again how much the U.S. economy is struggling to create jobs. It’s now becoming clear that our country, once the envy of workers around…