
According to a new study by Bankrate.com, over half of Americans cannot financially handle a bill of $500 or more. 63 percent said they would be unable to handle an unexpected expense.
by William Bigelow6 Jan 2016, 5:42 PM PST0

With feminist witch-hunts rapidly going out of fashion, the social justice warriors of tech have latched onto a new cause: economic inequality.
by Milo Yiannopoulos6 Jan 2016, 10:59 AM PST0

Debt is a fantastic way to control people, because politicians can offer to relieve portions of that debt in exchange for votes. The political battlespace has been well-prepared by teaching citizens to hate the banks that loan them money to fulfill their ambitions and satisfy their desires.
by John Hayward5 Jan 2016, 12:33 PM PST0

Although President Barack Obama likes to snarl about the unfairness of income inequality, under his administration, the 400 top earning American families now pay about one-third less of their income in taxes than under President Ronald Reagan.
by Chriss W. Street1 Jan 2016, 10:02 PM PST0

New York’s Top Democrats have identified the causes of the mass opposition to illegal immigration and Syrian resettlement: Anger, fear, and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election.
by Spyridon Mitsotakis14 Dec 2015, 9:40 PM PST0

In an interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily, historian Victor Davis Hanson spoke about the decline of his native California and increasing distance between the Democrat and Republican elites and average, middle-class Americans. Hanson is a columnist, former classics professor, scholar of ancient warfare, and the author of numerous books on history and politics, including his newest The Decline and Fall of California: From Decadence to Destruction.
by Jarrett Stepman8 Dec 2015, 9:44 AM PST0

New reports show that Africa’s middle class is closer to 18 million people than the previously estimated 300 million. To make matters worse, they are all located in a very small area of the continent.
by Mary Chastain20 Nov 2015, 12:13 PM PST0

A researcher who investigated the new study that shows increased death rates among middle-aged, middle-class whites has revealed something even more jarring — since 2005, all the extra dead were women, not men.
by John Hayward11 Nov 2015, 1:44 PM PST0

Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Martin O’Malley said that “our economy isn’t money, it’s people,” at a candidate forum in South Carolina Friday hosted by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
by Patrick Howley6 Nov 2015, 6:03 PM PST0

“Pain is part of life” is not what the culture of 2015 wants to hear, and it’s bound to raise sarcastic chuckles as the impromptu slogan of Bush’s presidential campaign… but he’s right, and the quest to avoid pain has gone far beyond the point of diminishing returns. This is true of every form of discomfort – from physical and emotional pain, to economic anxiety and the “trigger words” culture of hyper-sensitivity on campus.
by John Hayward5 Nov 2015, 12:24 PM PST0

The 70 percent of Americans that comprise the middle class have been suffering for years from “stealth stagflation” that is driven by high taxes and oppressive regulations.
by Ed Butowsky4 Nov 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

The death rate for middle-aged white people is rising, even as it also falls for other demographics, and even though the overall health of older people is rising, says a new study.
by John Hayward3 Nov 2015, 9:04 PM PST0

Credit Suisse claims that China’s middle class is now the biggest in the world, growing much faster than America’s, but the reason for this situation is less obvious than one would think.
by William Bigelow16 Oct 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

Pope Francis took advantage of his historic address to the U.S. Congress to lecture politicians on the importance of wealth creation for lifting the poor out of poverty.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.24 Sep 2015, 7:44 AM PST0

Donald Trump is currently involved in a vicious argument with the Club for Growth over tax policy. The Club for Growth is running ads against Trump in Iowa accusing him of several offenses against growth-oriented conservatism, including a proposal to raise taxes. They added a bare-knuckle punch proclaiming Trump to be more liberal than Hillary Clinton, or even Bernie Sanders, and called him “the worst kind of politician.”
by John Hayward16 Sep 2015, 11:06 AM PST0

California Democrats wants to create a mileage tax–a new tax on every mile driven in the state–despite already having the highest gas taxes in the nation. State officials say they need the tax increase, because gas tax collections to pay
by Chriss W. Street11 Aug 2015, 10:08 AM PST0

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — a likely GOP presidential candidate — wants to highlight how disconnected Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is from the middle class.
by Alex Swoyer9 Jun 2015, 8:08 AM PST0

The Center for Jobs & the Economy has published a study entitled, “Economic Tale of Two Regions: Los Angeles County vs. Bay Area.” Their research, which compiles data to track jobs created in the past 24 years, reveals that the two regions have been at opposite ends of the wage spectrum. The Bay Area experienced high-wage growth that lifted the middle-class, while Los Angeles slumped toward a two-tier economy as higher-wage jobs shriveled and were somewhat replaced by lower-wage jobs.
by Chriss W. Street16 May 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tweeted that she agrees with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, as she welcomed him to the race for the Democrat nomination, saying, “Focus must be on helping America’s middle class.”
by Dan Riehl30 Apr 2015, 6:58 PM PST0

Apple’s earnings vaulted by 27.5% for the first three months of 2015 compared to the same period last year, on the phenomenal Chinese sales driving profit margins for the iPhone 6. The virtuous smartphone tailwind and buzz about the Apple Watch spiked store traffic that also goosed Mac sales. With an operating margin of over 30 percent and $194 billion in the bank, Apple deserves to be the world’s most valuable company.
by Chriss W. Street28 Apr 2015, 11:54 AM PST0

As former Hewlett-Packard CEO and California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina nears a decision to run for president in 2016, she blasted Hillary Clinton’s recent attack on CEO pay and the “selective outrage of the left.”
by Dr. Susan Berry17 Apr 2015, 10:04 AM PST0

According to the U.S. Department of Education (USED), while 75 percent of the fastest-growing careers require post-high school education and training, more than half of middle class students who start college fail to earn a bachelor’s degree within six to eight years.
by Dr. Susan Berry26 Mar 2015, 9:30 PM PST0

With his budget proposal going nowhere in Congress and his executive amnesty blocked by a federal judge, President Obama stopped by the Democratic National Committee on Friday to bash Republicans.
by Charlie Spiering20 Feb 2015, 9:32 AM PST0

President Obama released his blueprint for the federal budget Monday. Unsurprisingly, it is expected to boost federal spending far higher than recent years.
by Mike Flynn2 Feb 2015, 2:33 PM PST0

America is not made great by its government. Passive “hope for change” is worth nothing compared to active effort. Our true recovery will not be a matter of pouring another $60 billion into the leaky administrative bucket of public education. Recovery will be delivered by people who want an education so badly that they’ll go to school on rainy days with bread bags over their shoes to keep them dry.
by John Hayward22 Jan 2015, 7:56 AM PST0