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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The percentage of workers who belong to unions in the U.S. notched down to a record-low 10.0% in 2023, from 10.1% in 2022. The peak… Read More
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Some 99% of American companies are small businesses, and 100% of businesses started out small, but a recently finalized rule from the Biden administration’s Labor… Read More
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My foray into the workforce was a minimum-wage job making pizzas and washing dishes at Pizza Hut. The money I earned supported my spending as… Read More
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The Biden administration is trying to hike the threshold under which hourly-wage work regulations apply by about $25,000 per year. The proposed overtime rule threatens… Read More
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With 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, most U.S. households could use a raise. But an arbitrary, one-size-fits-all increase in the minimum wage imposed… Read More
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What if some of the antagonism around labor unions in the United States could be reduced by eliminating laws that force workers and unions alike… Read More
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The government made improper payments totaling $234 billion in fiscal year 2023, about $1,800 per U.S. household, according to data released by the White House’s… Read More
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Two competing proposals in Congress address Social Security provisions—the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)—that affect workers who have worked in… Read More
Commentary
You know there’s a problem when the rounding unit for a federal program’s improper payments equals the annual incomes of 13,408 U.S. households. Emails obtained… Read More
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The new jobs of one U.S. senator and of 302,570 ordinary Americans suggest that the quest for “diversity hires” has gone too far and may… Read More
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