A funny thing happened on the way to the labor market. The unemployment rate fell last month to 7.6%, but the labor force participation rate fell to 63.3%, the lowest in about 34 years. The LFPR is reported monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics but it has not received much attention until recently. So while the [...]
Guest blogger Marcelo Ostria, an NCPA research associate, discusses the challenge involved in measuring child poverty in the United States. In light of federal spending cuts, the media has recently revisited poverty in the United States. A recent article in the Christian Post depicts alarming child poverty and hunger rates while another article from the Associated Press [...]
A few posts back I may have referred to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) senior officials as “lumbering simpletons,” and for that I must apologize, because they have managed something truly spectacular. Here are the accuracy averages for veteran disability claim approval rates in 2012, just to give you a picture of how well things [...]
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill It seems that there is a video about wealth inequality that is going “viral.” This compelling video paints a bleak picture of the haves versus the have-nots (courtesy of very left-leaning websites such as Mother [...]
The National Center for Veterans’ Analysis and Statistics most recent veteran population projections hover around 22.2 million people, 45 percent of which are age 65 or older. Of the total veteran population only 38 percent are enrolled in the Veterans’ Health Administration, yet the total number of dependents and survivors who have generic cialis claims [...]
I was going to let the latest minimum wage issue pass and defer to last year’s NCPA publication on the topic. But every now and then, patent silliness from other sources deserves a response. A report from the Soros-funded Center for Economic and Policy Research (which was released a year ago, but has suddenly become a hot topic) [...]
When I retired, Medicare became my primary health insurance, fully covered by American taxpayers (and federal debt-holders), while Anthem/Blue Cross became my secondary health insurance, fully covered by the University of California. I will never have to spend a nickel of my Social Security benefits or inflation-adjusted defined retirement income on my health insurance. But [...]
I find it puzzling that considering the recent creep up in the unemployment rate, some in Congress want to place additional hiring and reporting burdens on employers. At issue is the Paycheck Fairness Act, which has already been rejected by the Senate two times. But as they say, a third time is a charm, so [...]