70% of Largest Cities Don’t Have Enough Money
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square In fiscal 2022, 70 percent of the largest cities in the U.S. did not…
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More than 50,000 Illegal Border Crossers Bused to Sanctuary Cities
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square Texas has bused more than 50,000 people who’ve illegally entered the U.S. and were…
New Hampshire is the freest state, New York is the least
By Bethany Blankey, The Center Square New Hampshire is the freest state in the U.S. compared to the rest of…
Surveys Show Largest Expansion of School Choice in U.S. History
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square More children are likely to have increased access to educational options after state legislators…
Parents Take Hard Look at Micro -Schooling
The Center Square As states and school districts continue to change their back-to-school policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic and…
Congressmen Get Millions in Pensions and Benefits
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square As the nation struggles with record high unemployment, extended job losses, continued statewide shutdowns,…
Montana Ranks 16th: Freedom, Base of Economic Strength
By Bethany Blankley, Central Square Montana’s economic freedom demonstrated the very slightest of improvements over the past year, according to…
Medicaid Expansion = “Medicare for All Lite”
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square A new report by the nonpartisan think tank The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA)…
Americans’ View of Economy is Highest in 19 Years
Within a record-setting 24-hour period, the S&P 500 surpassed 3,000 for the first time since its founding in 1896, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 27,000 for the first time since its founding in 1885.
In the first six months of 2019, the Dow rose by 16 percent and the S&P 500 by 20 percent.
In April, 263,000 nonfarm jobs were added to the economy, with hourly wage growth up by two-tenths of a percent and unemployment at 3.6 percent, its lowest level since December 1969. In June, 224,000 nonfarm jobs were added, far more than what economists predicted.