Joe Miller is simply wrong when he claims that the federal minimum wage is unconstitutional. In 1941 in United States v. Darby, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, which created the minimum wage.
At an event for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Thursday morning, he took on Democrats who have gone after Republican candidates for ...
... “It’s an act of desperation caused by the downright anger at the FCC for not implementing the agenda they promised,” said Sascha Meinrath, research director of the New America Foundation’s wireless future program, ...
Christina Romer, the outgoing chair of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors, said arguably the only positive thing you could say about employment in August: the numbers were “better than expected.”
Though President Barack Obama last week gave his “Combat Operations in Iraq Are Over” speech from the Oval Office, in the hope that anxious Americans would feel that nationally unnerving, messy foreign military entanglements are being reduced, his focus should have been Afghanistan – where the hemorrhage of U.S. interests and resources is only worsening.
Former OMB director Peter Orszag is off to a great start in his new career as a columnist. The expiring tax cuts pose a significant economic and policy conundrum (and less importantly, a real political one), given the weak economy and bleak fiscal outlook. Extending the cuts only temporarily and then letting them expire in 2013 — as he suggests — is a clever solution.
The U.S. "bought time" with its direct talks announcement Friday, said the New America Foundation's Daniel Levy, who has pushed for the U.S. to advance its own regional agenda and to bridge the gaps between the parties.
President Obama did the right thing. What the country now needs is for former President George W. Bush to close ranks with Obama and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and reaffirm that ours is a nation of freedom and tolerance, ...
Tuesday, Missouri voters overwhelmingly passed a measure giving their state the power to ignore the federal law requiring people to have health coverage. These voters are clearly worried about government control of health care. But they’re playing a dangerous game that could spark a real government takeover.
The United States already has large, government-financed health care systems. Consider Medicare.
Here are two things that don't typically go together: federal budgets and video games. But a new computer program from a bipartisan non-profit group has brought them together, with the aim not just to educate, but to make understanding fiscal policy more fun.
The "Stabilize the Debt Budget Simulator," a new online project from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, challenges players to balance the federal budget by making various policy choices. Together with Chris Dreibelbis, who handles outreach for the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform, POLITICO sat down to try the thing out. "It wasn't as entertaining as 'Grand Theft Auto' — and we didn't come close to balancing the budget — but it, like any modern video game, it did scare us a bit, given the tough fiscal choices that need to be made." ...
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