Morning Bell: “The White House Does Not Create Jobs”
Never were truer words spoken. At yesterday’s press briefing, White House spokesman Jay Carney admitted: “The White House does not create jobs.” As the Examiner’s senior political columnist Timothy P....
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Wisconsin Truth
A funny thing happened on the way to the recall. Government unions organized Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s (R) recall in retaliation for limiting their collective bargaining powers. But the...
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U.S. Shed 9,000 Mining, Energy Jobs in October, 17,000 Since May
Buried in Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the country’s unemployment situation was this disheartening fact: 9,000 employees of the mining and resource extraction sector lost their jobs...
View ArticleLabor Department Incorrectly Calculates Davis–Bacon Wage Requirements
Should government agencies use the best information possible? For more than 80 years, the Labor Department has answered that question in the negative. The Davis–Bacon Act (DBA) of 1931 requires federal...
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Garbage Collecting a Green Job? According to Government, Yes!
Taylor Jones/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released yet another green jobs report that has green advocates gushing in ways they couldn’t if they actually read past the first...
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Solar Energy Embarrassingly Less Productive than Coal
Newscom A map recently released by the Solar Foundation highlights the industry’s claim that 119,000 Americans are now employed in the solar industry. Its authors exclaim, “The United States solar...
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Part-Time America: Some Context, Please
JESSICA RINALDI/Reuters/Newscom File this under “Department of Exaggerated Statistics.” In the wake of the news that a temporary help agency became America’s second-largest employer, stories have...
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Footnote Failure: Gap Between Productivity and Pay Is Overstated
Newscom Paul Krugman and many others argue that compensation has not grown as fast as productivity. However, most of the apparent gap between the growth of pay and the growth of productivity is a...
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Green Jobs: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. President
Newscom In his speech at Knox College, President Obama laid out his plan for the Detroitification of America: higher taxes, higher spending, increased minimum wages, more mandates, and rerouting the...
View ArticleState Occupational Licensing: A Burdensome Barrier
The latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that barriers such as excessive state occupational licensing are thwarting opportunity for low-income workers. Occupational licensing can...
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