The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the diminishing value of the bachelor’s degree compared to a two-year degree at a community college. With the billions of dollars of federal money poured into college aid and the predicted shortages of workers in jobs that require technical training, it is no wonder that more people are [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
If Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Ca.) assault weapons bill is not enough of a kneejerk reaction to the Newtown shooting, Chicago is playing its part in contributing to the lack of common sense measures as well — by hurting its employee pension system. The board of Chicago’s Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund voted to divest [...]
Special blog post by Lewis Warne, an NCPA research associate. In 2011 Congress online canadian pharmacy no prescription defunded the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM, an). The SPM is an alternative to the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) that has been used since the 1960s. The goal of the SPM is to provide a more comprehensive picture of poverty [...]
Gallup released a survey last week showing that American households earning $90,000 a year of more reported that their daily spending has fallen about 36 percent since 2008. This spending excludes mortgages, cars and utility bills. One of the biggest arguments used against giving tax cuts to upper income households is that any financial benefit from the [...]
Note: The following post is an opinion expressed solely by the author and is fast cash loans not necessarily supported by anybody else on the planet. First, let me start by saying I love the free market – whether it be the marketplace of ideas, opinions or goods and services. The marketplace of ideas and [...]
Note: Guest blogger Kyle Buckley, a NCPA research associate, gives his thoughts on the Vice Presidential debate. The Vice Presidential debates last night were painful to watch, and the aftermath isn’t any more reassuring. Talking heads have focused relentlessly on cialis basso prezzo body language and what should have been said, while fact checkers cherry [...]