Disability Explosion Dragging Down Economic Growth

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The rapid rise in the number of Americans applying for and entering the Social Security Administration disability program has cost an estimated 0.6% of national output since the start of the recession, representing roughly $ 95 billion annually in lost economic growth. Each month, 14 million Americans receive some form of disability check, costing taxpayers an estimated… Read more »

Trade Agreements Can Advance Economic Freedom

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Kenichiro Seki/ZUMA Press/Newscom The United States is currently engaged in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations designed to reduce barriers to international trade and investment. The latest text from these negotiations shows how trade agreements, if properly designed and implemented, help advance economic freedom around the world. Among other things, the draft text calls for: No… Read more »

A look back at Margaret Thatcher’s economic record

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Margaret Thatcher, who served as the United Kingdom’s first — and, to date, only — female prime minister from 1979 to 1990, has died at age 87. Thatcher was Britain’s longest-serving prime minister and, along with Herbert Asquith and Clement Attlee, perhaps the most influential on domestic policy of the last century. Her record usually… Read more »