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Economy / Emmy Griffin / August 20, 2025

Mothers Are Leaving the Workforce in Droves

Feminists are panicking and using their platforms to try to scare mothers back to the cubicle. But it is they who should be ashamed for demeaning motherhood.

Economy / Michael Swartz / August 20, 2025

‘Learn to Code,’ They Said

“You’ll have all kinds of job opportunities,” they promised. As it turns out, a computer science degree is no longer a sure ticket to a high-paying job.

Economy / Emmy Griffin / August 11, 2025

Meeting Adult Milestones: Marriage and Homeownership

Being married and owning a home by age 30 is a rarity in 2025. In other words, the American Dream is slipping away. Here’s what happened, as well as some solutions.

Economy / Jeff Jacoby / August 7, 2025

In the Real World, Minimum-Wage Hikes Cost People Their Jobs

The effect has been documented ever since Congress passed the first federal minimum wage law in 1938.

Economy / Daniel McCarthy / July 29, 2025

Trump’s Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World)

In this trade war, all Americans are winning, except perhaps the mental prisoners of the Ivory Tower.

Economy / Nate Jackson / July 28, 2025

Trump’s Trade Wins Are Blowing

His weekend agreement with the European Union, collectively America’s biggest trading partner, is yet another achievement for his strategy of using tariffs to negotiate better deals.

Economy / Nate Jackson / July 23, 2025

Japan Inks Latest Tariff Deal With U.S.

Trump’s tariffs had the media screaming with panic, but given time and negotiation, they are beginning to produce the desired trade deals with important other nations.

Economy / John Stossel / July 16, 2025

Big Green

You give environmental groups billions, but do you think your money goes to “doing good,” like cleaning up rivers or parks? Most of Big E spends very little on that.

Economy / John Stossel / July 9, 2025

Labor Unions Kill Jobs

Whatever you think about capitalism, few people question the claim that unions help workers. But I will.

Economy / Nate Jackson / July 1, 2025

The Stock Market Apocalypse Never Came

Three months after Donald Trump’s big tariff announcement was supposed to bring economic disaster, markets endured some turmoil but have since rallied to all-time highs.

Economy / Emmy Griffin / June 27, 2025

California’s Illegal Alien Workforce Problem

The Golden State has built its tightrope economy on the backs of illegal alien labor. Now, deportations via the federal government could bring it crumbling down.

Economy / Emmy Griffin / June 26, 2025

The Big Lie Behind ‘Jobs Americans Won’t Do’

The problem was never Americans’ unwillingness to do tough jobs. It was companies undercutting the American worker by taking advantage of a powerless class of illegal aliens.

Economy / Victor Joecks / June 24, 2025

How Deportations Help American Workers

For many low-skilled Americans, the message of illegal immigration is that you aren’t needed. America’s elitists will import a cheap, foreign labor force to replace you.

Economy / Brian Mark Weber / June 13, 2025

Blue-Collar Occupations More Popular as AI Transforms Jobs Market

The credentials of a college degree are no longer all they’re cracked up to be as artificial intelligence advances, impacting the future of millions.

Economy / Douglas Andrews / June 12, 2025

Trump Deals With Our Ultimate Frenemy

Two days of high-level trade negotiations in London revealed not only China’s dependence on the U.S. for trade but also our nation’s dangerous dependence on China for the raw materials that make our modern world.

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