The latest census data shows that growth occurs in states where taxes are lower. Seven of the nine states that do not levy an income tax grew faster than the national average.

In this “Health Care 101” guide, Christopher J. Conover, author of the just-released “American Health Economy Illustrated,” distinguishes fact from fiction and answers some of the most fundamental questions about health care and health spending in America.

Intense debate continues over the appropriate level of marginal income tax rates, particularly as policymakers consider whether to extend part or all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which are currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2012.

While educators are eager to forget the financial woes of the past two years and return to the familiar routine of steady budget increases, the fiscal outlook for America's fourteen thousand school districts is bleak--not just for next year, but for a half decade or more.

Policies that directly address the problem of inadequate income are preferable to policies that restrict wage and job flexibility.

Major federal social programs have done a much better job over the past generation than most of recognize.

For 30 years, one notion has shaped much of modern social thought: that the human species is reproducing itself uncontrollably, and ominously.

Factors suggest that eithera realignment hasoccurred in American politics, or that a period of sustained Republican hegemony--the functional equivalent of a realignment--is ahead.