A newly published study, which quantifies the relationship between poverty and economic freedom, found evidence showing that increasing levels of freedom are associated with lower levels of poverty. This is…
About 40 percent of adults said that if faced with a $400 unexpected expense, they not be able to pay it with cash or would do so by selling something…
For years, many young college-aged Americans have viewed getting an internship almost as a rite of passage. Traditionally, internships have offered many advantages—helping to develop marketable skills, sprucing up a…
Putting on my sociological hat – which sits to the right of where most social science headgear sits atop others – I can list any number of reasons why many…
Americans agree: Our health-care system needs a serious overhaul. A number of recent surveys, including one by Harris Interactive and another by the Commonwealth Fund, show that over 80 percent…
In its September 2007 issue, Consumer Reports wades into America’s health care dialogue with a study that finds “four in ten Americans can’t depend on their health insurance.” The study…
A Feb. 13 Star Tribune editorial disagreed with President Bush's assertion that Social Security is not a "trust fund."
Always on the lookout for a new crisis, members of the liberal media have now latched onto the cause of childhood obesity.