Are Americans better off today than they were before Barack Obama was elected to office? Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist and economist John Lott, Jr. argue in "Debacle: Obama’s War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future" that spending increases, mounting debt, new regulations and higher tax rates answer this question with a resounding “no.”

John Lott is one of the nation’s most prolific and original policy economists, will join the research staff of the American Enterprise Institute as a resident scholar on September 1, AEI President Christopher DeMuth announced today.

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