The American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing cookie-cutter laws that could lock pension funds and taxpayers into losing deals—while propping up coal and other fossil fuel firms.

The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.

Don’t be hoodwinked. It isn’t Joe Biden who’s making record profits and gouging U.S. consumers. That would be corporate America.

But like most of the tech industry, they’re actually in the business of collecting your personal data.

Throughout the negotiations over Biden’s Build Back Better bill, the senator has unerringly demanded changes that would harm his state’s residents.

Despite Marc Lore’s ambitions for Telosa, water wars seem more likely than flying cars in our dystopian near future.

The idea could be met with pushback from Democrats hoping to extend the credit permanently or through 2025.

The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”

Paying tribute to the late economist who, with David Card, changed America’s mind about the minimum wage.

Governor Kristi Noem isn’t the problem. The other Dakota is a make-believe state devoted to the preservation of wealth dynasties, and it should just go away.

Democrats: If you screw this up, lose my phone number, because I’m done with you.

The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.

Surveys tracking how house cleaners, nannies, and others have been impacted by Covid-19 show a less rosy picture than official economic data.

Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons. But no one ever suggests banning the rich from those same hills.

Arthur Okun was a brilliant economist, but his classic book described a world that no longer exists.

Talking heads who blame government handouts for the labor shortage are missing the point. People are sick of crap jobs at crap wages.

This year’s insane transfer-window period has illuminated the sport’s apocalyptic financial inequities.

The much-beloved author turns 80 today. Her seminal works on economic inequality remain both timeless and timely.

Workers won an important decision in a California court, but with companies like Uber and Lyft vowing to fight it, the war over Prop 22 and copycat legislation has only just begun.

It may seem like a logical—even necessary—step to boost rates, but it would undermine many important health care reforms.