By Natalia Castro The House of Representatives is putting veterans back to work across the country. The House has nearly unanimously passed legislation to assist veterans in returning to work through the Brave Act and the Hire Vets Act, both assisting veterans who returned from […]

By Richard McCarty Last year, Big Labor gambled on Democrats, and they lost big at both the state and federal level. Now they find themselves out in the cold in many places. One of those places is Kentucky. Prior to the 2016 elections, Republicans held the Kentucky […]

By Robert Romano “Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don’t you want to get new Americans in?” That was the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol responding to a call by the American Enterprise Institute’s Charles Murray for a decrease in low-skilled immigration at a Feb. 7 event discussing Murray’s book “Coming Apart,” which notes the risks of the divergence of lifestyles between […]

By Robert Romano The past decade, the U.S. suffered the worst ever average annual economic growth rate of 1.3316 percent a year. That was even worse than 1930 through 1939 if you can believe that at 1.3334 percent a year, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Economic Analysis . “This is the worst decade for […]

By Rick Manning Congressional Quarterly was kind enough to interview me in its Feb. 6 edition in a conversation about trade , and as expected, the answers were longer than could be accommodated in their magazine spread. The editor of the piece did a fine job, but I felt that some very important nuances found their way onto the cutting room floor, and I did […]

By Robert Romano Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has proposed new legislation, S. 177 , that would require a vote of Congress before the imposition or increase of any tariffs and other duties by President Donald Trump. Decades ago, Congress delegated much of its Article I authority to enact tariffs […]

By Robert Romano In his first 100 hours in office, President Donald Trump appears to have accomplished more for union households and working Americans than former President Barack Obama did in 8 years. And in the process, he may be shaking up the electoral map in ways […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump has taken office, and he is not wasting any time. In his first full business day in office, one of Trump’s first acts was via executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. With the […]

By Robert Romano There are less than 51 hours left in the Obama administration, which will end Jan. 20 at noon Eastern Standard Time. So, what will President Barack Obama’s legacy of office be? Obama will have headed the only administration in modern history that presided over […]

By Natalia Castro In fiscal year 2016 the U.S. National debt rose $1.4 trillion to almost $20 trillion, a drag on the economy that has undermined sustainable economic growth for more than a decade now. Now, President-elect Donald Trump has an historic opportunity to make […]