Between all the talk of fiscal commissions and efficiency agencies, it seems like the question of the day is how to make the U.S. government operate more proficiently. There is no shortage of ideas on ...

One of the few things Democrats and Republicans agree on these days is it’s past time to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for 15 years. Vice President Kamala ...

For more than two decades, America has pursued a policy as costly as the New Deal of the 1930s or the Great Society of the 1960s, but with a much narrower aim: cut taxes. Judging from the ...

Medicaid work requirements reflect an overly simplistic view of the labor market, which is more complex than Republican proposals suggest, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Kathryn Anne Edwards writes. July ...

For decades, a job has been seen as the key to escaping poverty. A major new study turns the question on its head: What if hardship is the result of employment, as opposed to the absence of it? The ...

The budget bill that Republicans are currently trying to push through the House includes steep cuts to the two largest programs that help low-income Americans: Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition ...

The rising unemployment rate among U.S. workers aged 16 to 24 — it hit 10.5% in August, its highest level in a decade not counting the pandemic years — has added to the worry about the crisis of ...

The holidays are upon us, and more than ever the burgeoning influencer economy is having an impact on what consumers buy. Few reliable statistics can be found concerning the influencer profession, but ...

House Republicans released a budget proposal that effectively calls for a $4.5 trillion tax cut funded by $1.5 trillion in reduced spending and borrowing the remaining $3 trillion. It should be a ...