Despite multiple warnings in the past, the Department of Labor has yet to implement a comprehensive strategy for detecting unemployment insurance fraud.
If lawmakers keep spending like they are, and if the Fed backs down from taming inflation, then the government may create a perfect storm.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
Some people would benefit. Others would lose money or be rendered unemployable.
Employment is an ultimatum game, where playing along might get workers less than employers, but refusing to play gets everyone zero.
These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
With government meddling, many farmers end up doing less with more, and people end up paying more for less.
If the midterms favor Republicans, their top priority needs to be the fight against inflation—whether or not they feel like they created the problem.
The idea that the Fed has the knowledge necessary to control the economy with perfectly calibrated policies was always an illusion.
Even reduced immigration and job openings for miles aren't luring America's ever-growing workforce dropouts back in.
Some conservative media outlets and politicians lambast the practice. But if you care about public safety, that opposition doesn't make sense.
The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.
The better-than-expected employment numbers are fueling investors' inflation fears and causing the stock market to fall.
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
The Republican Senate candidate is echoing decades of anti-pot propaganda, but evidence to support his hypothesis is hard to find.
There is seldom any meaningful accountability for government incompetence.
Despite a promising April jobs report, the U.S. is still 3 million workers short.
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Unions or minimum wage laws aren't required for workers to shift the balance of power.
Both Republicans and Democrats want to address poverty with big government.
Phony outrage is used to deflect from bad policy decisions.
Economists predicted that we'd see 575,000 new jobs in November. A new Bureau of Labor Statistics report says only 210,000 were created.
Is the problem government cash or have we entered a new paradigm?
Monetary policy can't work optimally until we free up the economy in other important ways.
States that already had lower unemployment rates in May are more likely to have announced plans for ending the bonus unemployment payments.
Unemployment is falling but fraudulent jobless claims are still skyrocketing in some places.
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Using the process of elimination, the culprit seems clear.
The government's coronavirus-related unemployment benefits are encouraging some to stay unemployed.
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Jobs data casts doubt on the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic is uniquely setting women back.
High unemployment benefits are getting the blame for disappointing job growth in the midst of a worker shortage
Despite their professed goals, Democrats' pandemic policies have widened disparities between races, classes, and genders.
But where is the outrage?
Fewer low wage businesses also means fewer job opportunities for low wage workers.
Enhanced unemployment benefits may have helped many Americans weather the pandemic, but they've also attracted the interest of some modern-day Willie Suttons.
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Unsettled political circumstances and the ongoing pandemic crossed with Congress' broken bill-passing process is a recipe for chaos.
Even as the economy recovers, pain from the COVID-19 lockdowns still lingers.
Is it too much to ask for a presidential candidate who cares about America's fiscal health and respects the limits of his office?
The danger of the virus can’t be considered to the exclusion of the need for jobs and prosperity.
Officials claim doing business is a revocable “privilege,” but many Americans see it as a right that they’ll exercise with or without licenses and permits.
Even if it's true, taxpayers paid $58,000 for each saved job.
If Congress extends boosted temporary unemployment benefits into early 2021, nearly five out of every six beneficiaries would be earning more money by not working.