DOLLARS AND SENSE ECONOMICS

IWF’s Dollars and Sense Economic project highlights the problems with costs of government overreach, including how government’s overspending impacts the economy and taxpayers and how programs that sound compassionate, such as extended unemployment benefits and generous welfare programs, can discourage work and ultimately harm those they are intended to help. IWF offers an alternative vision of how government can be scaled back, so that aid and intervention is targeted where it is really needed and a thriving private sector and civil society can emerge. IWF highlights ways that government could be streamlined (including reform of our entitlement programs) and how the tax code could be made fairer and less burdensome to encourage greater growth and innovation. IWF also explains how regulations are strangling the private sector, preventing job creation, and needlessly constricting Americans' private life.

Categories:  Budget & Spending,  the economy,  Energy,  Entitlement Programs (welfare, UI, Social Security, SSDI, etc),  Intellectual Property Rights,  Taxation, Technology

Are There Lessons from the GM Bailout?

November 29 2018
by Charlotte Hays

The Politics of Work

November 27 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Help Support Veterans this Holiday Shopping Season

November 26 2018
by Vicki E. Alger

Millennial Monday: Millennials Spending Big This Holiday Shopping Season

November 26 2018
by Betsy Pearson

Americans Expect to Drop $1K Shopping This Holiday Season, Will You?

November 23 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

A Reason to Be Blue: Democrat States Face Loan Debt

November 14 2018
by Charlotte Hays

BOOM: Small Business Optimism Rides High Again

November 13 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Did Voters Understand that San Francisco’s New Homelessness Tax is Not a Good Idea?

November 8 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Voters say no thanks to new taxes in 2018 elections

November 7 2018
by Hadley Heath

October Jobs Report: "Pretty Much Everything You Could Want"

November 5 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

Liberals Need to Stop the False Narrative about Americans Working Multiple Jobs

November 5 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Big Gains for Workers: 250k Jobs Added in October, Wages Up

November 2 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Who Would Suffer Most If The Tax Cuts Were Scrapped?

November 2 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Happy Halloween: It's Time for Mommy Tax

October 31 2018
by Staff

Wages and Salaries Make Biggest Jump in a Decade

October 31 2018
by Charlotte Hays

The Investment Gap: Young Women Less Likely to Invest than Young Men

October 26 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Washington is Working to Accelerate the Next Generation of Wireless Tech

October 25 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Kamala Harris Wants to Replace Republican Tax Relief with New Government Payouts

October 23 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

President Trump Puts Washington on a Diet: Trim Budgets by 5 Percent

October 22 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Government Rakes in Record Revenues from Income Taxes . . . after the Tax Cuts

October 18 2018
by Charlotte Hays

How the $15 Minimum Wage Hike Created a Car Wash Black Market

October 17 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Economist Poll on MeToo Movement

October 16 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Tipped Workers Explain Economics 101 to D.C. City Council

October 15 2018
by Charlotte Hays

3 Policy Areas Kanye West Championed in Trump Meeting

October 12 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Report: Low Tax States The Most Solvent in U.S.

October 10 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Amazon Leapfrogs Over Other Retailers with New $15 Minimum Wage

October 3 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Coming This Holiday Season: New Perks for Retail Workers Courtesy of the Economy

September 17 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

On Jobs and Poverty, the New York Times Willfully Gets It Wrong

September 14 2018
by Charlotte Hays

‘Cosby Show’ Star has a Message About Work Everyone Should Hear

September 5 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

No, Our Growing Economy Is Not A "Sugar High"

August 24 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Unreliable Metro System Always Has the Tin Cup Out

August 22 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Favorite Coffee Shop Closed Because of Minimum Wage Hikes

August 22 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Trump EPA Rolls Back Costly Obama-Era Energy Regulations

August 21 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

College Loan Debt Said to Be Key Factor in One In Eight Divorces

August 16 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Net Neutrality is Dead and the Internet is Getting Faster

August 15 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Millennial Monday: Another Poll Finds Millennials Prefer Socialism But Can’t Define It

August 13 2018
by Betsy Pearson

NYC’s Vote to Curb Uber, Lyft Growth is About Saving Taxis, Transit Not Helping Passengers

August 9 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Small Business Owners are Sitting Pretty in Today’s Economy

August 8 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

2.8 Million Fewer Americans on Food Stamps Since President Trump Took Office

August 6 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

The Left Admits Americans Want Opportunities Not Handouts

July 30 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Millennial Monday: A Generation of Entrepreneurs Will Keep America Great

July 30 2018
by Betsy Pearson

Commerce Department Shows that U.S. Economy Is On A Roll

July 27 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Millions of Americans are Unbanked Just Like This TV Talk Show Host

July 26 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Look at What Tax Reform 2.0 Promises for Women and Families

July 25 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Millennial Monday: When should a millennial start saving for retirement?

July 23 2018
by Betsy Pearson

San Francisco Has a Crappy Problem on Their Hands, but Will the City Do Anything About It?

July 20 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Four Blue States Sue to Preserve Tax Loopholes for the Rich

July 19 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Here’s Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Wrong on Unemployment, Capitalism

July 18 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

The Democratic Fight Against $15

July 16 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Good News: Americans Quitting Their Jobs at Record Rate

July 10 2018
by Charlotte Hays