The economy has many problems. But the labor market hasn’t been doing this well in many decades.
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What Census Poverty Estimates May Miss
Pandemic unemployment programs are significantly underreported, giving a misimpression about their effectiveness.
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The Poverty Yo-Yo
New Census Bureau statistics show that abandoning the successful anti-poverty interventions of the pandemic has put the nation right back where it started.
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Yellow Scapegoats Teamsters for Apollo-Led Bankruptcy
The trucking company alleges the Teamsters used the company as a sacrificial lamb.
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Apollo Stands to Win From Yellow’s Collapse
The trucking company’s demise reads like a history of modern capitalism.
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Bidenomics Refutes the Canard That Government Is Slow
Today on TAP: America’s industrial renaissance is happening faster than almost anyone anticipated.
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Biden’s Unheralded War on Poverty
By creating a full-employment economy, Biden enabled millions of low-wage workers to raise their pay.
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Pandemic Fraud Is Really, Truly Not a Big Deal
The media’s focus on waste misses key context, and ignores the stunning success of the lockdown-era welfare state.
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Are Good Jobs Good News?
Today on TAP: At many media outlets, however belatedly, they are. But not at The Wall Street Journal.
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The Fed’s Favorite Inflation Measure Has Some Large Holes
There are strong reasons to think we can have stable prices and low unemployment.
