In a much-anticipated jobs report, the Department of Labor released data today showing continued hiring in July despite a surge in coronavirus cases, albeit at a slower pace than in previous months. The U.S. economy added 1.8 million jobs in…
“If we were to suffer a recession identical to the Great Recession again, Social Security’s trust fund would be gone in 2029,” BPC analyst Nicko Gladstone said. He detailed his findings on a podcast for the Concord Coalition, a venerable…
More than two months after House Democrats passed their version of the next installment of pandemic relief for struggling Americans (H.R.6800, the HEROES Act), Senate Republicans and Trump administration officials finally joined the debate and introduced their own: The Heath,…
This week, I hosted an informal online conversation with think-tank scholars Brian Riedl of the right-leaning Manhattan Institute and Ben Ritz of the left-leaning Progressive Policy Institute. The goal: to bring together public policy experts with differing political philosophies in…
