Health care has become the beating heart of America's economy. In the past 15 years, the health care economy has pumped out 4.5 million new jobs, including related fields such as drug development and health insurance. A dozen of the 30 fastest growing occupations are related to health care. Even last month - as the unemployment rate took its biggest jump in 22 years - health care continued to add thousands of jobs. ...more

June 14, 2008

In trying to assemble a bipartisan package to jolt the slumping economy, the White House and Congress have turned to familiar tools that experts say have worked in the past. But there is also a lively debate among economists about which measures will best accomplish the goal. ...more

January 19, 2008

"The first thing I'd love to do as president: Put a 'Going out of business' sign on the Internal Revenue Service." ...more

January 14, 2008

Defying Common Sense Regarding "Illegal Immigrants Costly To States" (Nation/World, Dec. 19): ...more

December 27, 2007

Illegals Drain Economy After reading the letter from Mr. Deron Mikal, I have concluded that he does not care at all for the American worker. All he seems interested in getting something cheap. Based on his way of thinking, why should we have any labor in this country? Let's just outsource it to someone who can do it cheaper. ...more

December 26, 2007

State and local taxes paid by illegal immigrants fail to offset the cost of public services that state and local governments in Florida and elsewhere provide, a new study done for Congress says. ...more

December 19, 2007

Lately, Sen. Barack Obama has been saying that major action is needed to avert what he keeps calling a "crisis" in Social Security. Progressives who fought hard and successfully against the Bush administration's attempt to panic America into privatizing the New Deal's crown jewel are outraged, and rightly so. ...more

November 20, 2007

President Franklin Roosevelt, founder of National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (which later became the March of Dimes), wrote in a November 1942 letter to Basil O'Connor, the president of the organization, that '... nothing is closer to my heart than the health of our boys and girls and young men and young women. To me it is one of the front lines of our National Defense.' ...more

October 16, 2007