Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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It’s not easy to live on $944 per month, especially if you are disabled. But $944—less than the federal poverty level—is what the average disabled… Read More
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Puerto Rico is in the midst of a severe economic and financial crisis and is looking for a way out—or in other words—a change in… Read More
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The Congressional Budget Office released its annual 2015 Long Term Budget Outlook today, including the economic assumptions on which that outlook relies. Setting aside the… Read More
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The Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled in a 5-2 decision today in favor of the Chris Christie administration, reversing a lower court’s ruling that… Read More
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Facebook recently announced plans to require its vendors to pay workers at least $15 per hour, offer at least 15 days of paid vacation and… Read More
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Lawmakers rely on projections from federal agencies, such as the Social Security Administration, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to assess… Read More
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Editor’s note: Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the Senate this weekend, would allow the IRS to hire 87,000 new agents. There aren’t many… Read More
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It’s tax day—time to send those income tax payments to your federal and state governments. While tax withholding throughout the year means that many individuals… Read More
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Today is apparently “equal pay day”—the alleged day of a new year through which a woman must work in order to earn the same pay… Read More
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States across the U.S. share the common goal of economic prosperity, but they differ vastly in how they set out to achieve it. The latest… Read More
