The U.S. disability system is failing--growing at an unsustainable pace for taxpayers and delivering relatively poor outcomes to those with disabilities.

The costs of disability programs are rising at an unsustainable pace. In all likelihood this will produce calls for program reforms. More systematic solutions should be considered, like experience rating SSDI payroll taxes.

Richard Burkhauser of Cornell and Mary Daly of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, coauthors of The Declining Work and Welfare of People with Disabilities (AEI Press, September 2011), offer a "work first" approach that has the potential to shrink caseloads, curb costs, and improve the economic outlook for people with disabilities.

While difficult to achieve, fundamental disability reform is possible.

In the 1990s, social expectations of single mothers shifted.

People who advocate a steady state economy as a way out of the recession are actually advocating a form of a centrally planned economy. The way out of the recession is not through a steady state economy, but through economic growth.

These demonstrations may not topple the regime, but they serve as a reminder of the will of the Iranian people to resist dictatorship.

Since becoming chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Christopher Cox has been advancing the idea of a new, electronically based system of disclosure that will both improve the information available to investors and reduce the disclosure and reporting costs of companies. This new system, which the chairman calls...