Middle Class

Vice President Kamala Harris wants to tinker with the tax code because “working families deserve a break.” She promoted the plan in Tuesday’s debate with former President Donald Trump and in her newly released agenda. The Harris plan would…

In mid-June, Medicare’s Office of the Actuary published its annual estimate of national health spending projections for the coming decade. As usual, the document concluded that health spending would rise ever higher, from nearly…

California raised the minimum wage of the state’s fast-food workers to $20 per hour on April 1. It wasn’t a silly April Fools joke, and no one was laughing because the law’s devastating effects on restaurants and workers are as bad as its…

Prices are rising again — but for once, Joe Biden is not to blame. Unsurprisingly, however, another Democrat is. Recent surveys have revealed the extent to which restaurant prices have skyrocketed in California since that state’s new…

When covering the political persistence of “Bidenflation,” I’ve noted that economists keep wondering why opinion polls continue to show the American people are sour on an economy that continues to create jobs. Ultimately, the question in…

Social media was on fire this week in the wake of the Claudine Gay incompetence scandal at Harvard, the 737 IKEA MAX airplane scandal at Boeing, and the ongoing scandal of fanatic, destructive DEI hiring rules at airlines, air traffic…

This past Columbus Day, I took my wife and kids to a pumpkin patch. While we had a good time, what struck us was the cost of the whole thing. Admission alone cost us $60 plus tax. If we weren’t so frugal, we could have easily spent another…

The success of Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign could depend on whether he can effectively convince voters that his economic agenda has improved the lives of working-class and middle-income Americans. Unfortunately for the president,…

Regime change begins at home, and we need it. Our nation has been run into the ground, and our leaders seems at best clueless about, and at worst complicit in, the destruction. But replacing an elite caste is difficult; elites are, well,…

President Joe Biden’s recent budget for fiscal year 2024 comes with a glaring contradiction hiding in plain sight. To wit, the policies pursued by “Middle Class Joe” — a sobriquet that The Washington Post notes Biden bestowed upon himself —…