As fears of coronavirus mount around the globe, cities and countries are taking action to prevent the new respiratory virus strain from spreading. While the virus has not yet hit hard in the United States, government officials and health agencies have enacted response plans, corporations are halting travel abroad, and education leaders are grappling with … Continue reading Coronavirus May Lead to “Mass Homeschooling”
Democrats have used the coronavirus to point to why the U.S. needs a government-paid family leave program (such as the FAMILY Act), so that employees can take time off from their jobs without losing much-needed paychecks. Well, in Washington state (which has the most reported coronavirus cases in the U.S. thus far), “It’s Here. It’s Yours.”—government-paid family leave, that … Continue reading Coronavirus Shows Government Paid Leave a Bad Fit for Employees’ Needs
One of the more elementary observations about economics is that a nation’s prosperity is determined in part by the quantity and quality of labor and capital. These “factors of production” are combined to generate national income. I frequently grouse that punitive tax policies discourage capital. There’s less incentive to invest, after all, if the government imposes extra layers of … Continue reading Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It
Sign here to tell Congress to kill the "Green New Deal"! ---- There is nothing environmentally conscientious about prematurely shutting down sound infrastructure that provides clean, low-cost, reliable electricity. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what state renewable energy mandates, federal energy subsidies, and policies like the Green New Deal would do to accommodate politically preferred renewable energy … Continue reading The Hidden Costs of Energy Mandates
Sign here to tell Congress to kill the "Green New Deal"! ---- Young people are often heralded for their good intentions and their love of social causes. What we’re less experienced with, like all humans, is multiple-stage planning—the kind of forethought it takes to anticipate not just what to do, but the unintended consequences of … Continue reading The Unseen Costs of Climate Alarmism Are Paid by the Global Poor
In Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell wrote that prices are what tie together the vast network of economic activity among people who are too vastly scattered to know each other. Prices are the regulators of the free market. An object’s value in the free market is not how much it costs to produce, but rather how … Continue reading How Government-Guaranteed Student Loans Killed the American Dream for Millions
When you’re several decades older than Greta Thunberg, her impassioned warning of impending doom hits you differently than it may college students or early twentysomethings. In a word, it sounded “familiar.” I’m not just talking about the climate change movement, nor exclusively about the left side of the political spectrum. I’ve been hearing about impending … Continue reading Why Even Liberals Should Be “Climate Change Skeptics”
Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading Paul Ehrlich’s apocalyptic claims. In his book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich wrote: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will … Continue reading The Myth That Our Planet Faces an Overpopulation Crisis
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Ann-Marie Campbell and her family immigrated to the United States shortly after she completed high school. After losing her father at a young age, she was primarily raised by her entrepreneurial grandmother, who taught her about retail from an early age. In 1985, in order to pay for college, she took … Continue reading How This Jamaican Immigrant Went from Part-Time Cashier to VP of Home Depot
Go here to tell Congress to kill the Green New Deal! In what its supporters have claimed is “visionary,” congressional media darling Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (AOC) has released her short-awaited Green New Deal, and she has called for nothing short of the destruction of life as we have known it: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she has … Continue reading AOC’s Green New Deal Is a U.S. Version of Mao’s Disastrous Great Leap Forward
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