Labor force participation hovers near 37-year low. The labor force participation rate hovered between 62.9 percent and 62.7 percent in the eleven months from April 2014 through February, and has been 62.9 percent or lower in 13 of the 17 months since October 2013. Prior to that, the last time the rate was below 63 percent was 37 years ago, ... MORE
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Ali Meyer: 92,898,000 Americans Are Not Working
Labor force participation hovers near 37-year low. The labor force participation rate hovered between 62.9 percent and 62.7 percent in the eleven months from April 2014 through February, and has been 62.9 percent or lower in 13 of the 17 months since October 2013. Prior to that, the last time the rate was below 63 percent was 37 years ago, ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Honesty Gap
Looking at the war on women. There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that
Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women
and men, paid the women on her Senate staff just 72 percent of what she
paid the men. The Obama White House staff likewise has a pay gap
between women and men, as of course ... MOREJacob Sullum: 'Drugged' Drivers Who Aren't
What if the risk ratio is statistically insignificant? Last year, during a congressional
hearing on the threat posed by stoned drivers, a
representative of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) was asked how many crash fatalities are
caused by marijuana each year. "That's difficult to say," replied
Jeff Michael, NHTSA's ... MOREJim Clifton: The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
Official lies from government. Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading. Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall ... MORERecord 92,898,000 Americans Not In The Workforce
by Caroline May. But no worries, government also says unemployment rate drops to 5.6%. A record 92,898,000 Americans 16 years and older did not participate in the labor force last month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS defines people not in the work force as people 16 years and
up who are not employed and ... MOREExcellent News As E-Cigarette, Or Vaping, Use Rises
by Tim Worstall. We’ve news from the government that the use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, is on the rise among schoolchildren and teenagers. We might think that this is a health story and it is, but behind it is an interesting little economic point and a guide to public policy. The question really revolves around whether vaping is a substitute ... MORETeen Marijuana Use Down Since Colorado Legalization?
by Michael Minkoff. In a non-intuitive twist, it seems that pot legalization in marijuana has not contributed to a sharp increase in teen marijuana use. In fact, legalization might be contribuing to a drop in teen use: Since the passage of HB10-1284, Colorado’s
historical medical marijuana regulation legislation, current marijuana
use among ... MOREHundreds Of Police Killings Are Uncounted In Federal Stats
by Rob Barry and Coulter Jones. When 24-year-old Albert Jermaine Payton wielded a knife in front of the police in this city’s southeast corner, officers opened fire and killed him. Yet according to national statistics intended to track police killings, Mr. Payton’s death in August 2012 never happened. It is one of hundreds of homicides ... MOREWe're Number 2! China Tops America As Largest Economy
by Brett Arends. Another dividend of hope and change. Hang on to your hats, America. And throw away that big, fat styrofoam finger while you’re about it. There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll just say it: We’re no longer No. 1. Today, we’re No. 2. Yes, it’s official. The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become ... MORE
More Utah Killings By Cops Than By Criminals
Erin Alberty. In the past five years, more Utahns have been killed by police than by gang members. Or drug dealers. Or from child abuse. And so far this year, deadly force by police has claimed more lives — 13, including a Saturday shooting in South Jordan — than has violence between spouses and dating partners.As the tally of fatal police shootings rises, ... MOREFBI Report: Americans Less Violent, Except for Police
Violent crime lowest since 1978. According to new FBI statistics released this week, violent crime rates in the US fell over 4% in the past year alone, bringing the amount of violent crimes lower than it has been in nearly 40 years. The statistics showed that there were an estimated 1.16 million violent crimes in the year of 2013, which is the ... MOREObamaCare Enrollment Estimates Lowered By A Third
4 million fewer enrollments than predicted. The Department of Health and Human Services expects ObamaCare enrollments through the federal and state exchanges to come in between 9 million and 9.9 million by the end of 2015, according to CNBC, far lower than the most recent estimate released by the Congressional Budget Office in April of ... MOREGrant Duwe: The Truth About Mass Public Shootings
Why do the numbers appear to be going up? Because previous shootings have been underreported. The findings from two separate reports
released in the last month—one
by the FBI and the other by progressive investigative media
outlet
Mother Jones—have been offered up as evidence that
"mass shootings" are occurring more ... MOREAmericans Are Renouncing Citizenship At A Record Pace
by Laura Saunders. Significant numbers of people are continuing to renounce their U.S. citizenship or end their long-term U.S. residency. There are 776 names on the Treasury Department list published Friday for the third quarter of 2014. That’s the third highest quarterly figure ever, according to Andrew
Mitchel, an international tax lawyer in ... MOREThe Academic Mob Silences Free Speech, Again
A Washington Times editorial. Inconvenient truths not welcomed. Arithmetic continues to be a puzzle in certain precincts of academia. Scripps College,
an all-female school in Claremont, Calif., founded on the principle
that “the paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its
students the ability to think clearly and independently,” ... MOREJacob Sullum: New Survey Data Deflate Two Drug Scares
The drug war is dependent on deception. Survey data released this month by the
federal government cast doubt on a couple of widely accepted
beliefs about drug use trends: 1) that the nation is in the midst
of an escalating "heroin epidemic" and 2) that loosening marijuana
prohibition encourages teenagers to smoke pot. In the National ... MOREWalter E Williams: Do Statistical Disparities Mean Injustice?
The truth behind the numbers. How many times have we heard laments such as "women are 50 percent of the population but only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs" and, as the Justice Department recently found, "blacks are 54 percent of the population in Newark, New Jersey, but 85 percent of pedestrian stops and 79 percent of arrests"? ... MORE
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