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Although economists believe that raising the minimum wage hurts young and low-skilled workers by pricing them out of a job, the move has public support. 

The GOP wants a market-driven health care reform plan to replace Obamacare. In Human Events, Merrill Matthews offers a brief summary of the key components.

A "do nothing" Congress is probably a constitutional Congress.

President Obama's bogus promises are legendary, but perhaps you've forgotten his "sky is falling" forecast about the sequester. Tom Giovanetti points out the economy added about 1 million new jobs over the period during which the sequester was supposed to cost 750,000 jobs.

President Obama's bogus promises are legendary, but perhaps you've forgotten his "sky is falling" forecast about the sequester. Tom Giovanetti points out the economy added about 1 million new jobs over the period during which the sequester was supposed to cost 750,000 jobs.

President Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address on January 28, and will likely begin by stressing that the economy continues to improve. But at least one economic dark cloud looms: the debt ceiling. 

Seeing politicians stand up and praise our returning wounded warriors and yet never fixing their health care system is lesson in hypocrisy. But it’s also a lesson in what the public can expect under Obamacare.

Merrill Matthews tells reporter Michael Kanell a larger workforce itself adds to the economy's potential. 

Merrill Matthews said Obama claims credit for increasing oil and natural gas production while working to thwart it. “His energy ‘successes’ [amount to] putting a happy face on a dysfunctional and damaging effort,” he said.

Fiscal restraint and energy production are the best way to fiscal health.