President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Job Corps sixty years ago. Trump wants to cut off funding for this vital workforce development program.
Trump and the Economy
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue
Trump asks for $2,000 checks, and Democratic leaders call his bluff. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for December 23, 2020.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Avoid Taxes, Receive Federal Bailouts
It’s the common thread among a host of companies lining up to feed on a rescue package.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Even Free-Marketeers Should Support Central Planning in a Pandemic
The very arguments Friedrich Hayek used against central planning now work in favor of it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Fund the Front Lines
Despite more than a decade of underfunding public health and safety, those workers have stepped up to meet the crisis. Government must help them with emergency and long-term support.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Financial Engineering Deepens the Corona Depression
Wall Street scams and schemes that the Dodd-Frank Act intended to kill rose from the dead after 2010. Now they are killing what’s left of the economy—again.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s Economy Goes Viral
Today on TAP: The potential risks and lessons of a COVID-19 pandemic
Posted inEconomic Policy
Under Trump, Income Growth Slows Across U.S., Including in Key Battleground States
Forty-eight states saw real median household income growth decline in Trump’s first two years, some dramatically.
