In January of this year, the number of manufacturing jobs increased by 50,000. Yet this vibrant sector is being held back—and not by imports.

Community colleges are subsidized through direct state and local government appropriations and through student grant programs. Every student who drops out represents an investment loss by the taxpayers in that student's uncompleted education.

A exposé purporting to show that Bonn-based Fairtrade International (FLO),the world’s largest labeller of ethical goods, had failed in its oversight of a project in west Africa that supplies Limited Brands-owned Victoria’s Secret.  The project  was paying sub-par wages to children labouring in inhumane conditions and helps drive a wedge between FLO and FairTrade USA.

A growing body of work--both theoretical and empirical--has emphasized thatunionization may be better understood as a tax on capital rather than a tax on labor. Underthis "new" view, unionization unambiguously lowers investment. Using data on unioncertification elections, we estimate the impact of unionization on firms' investment behavior.

This report describes the extent of its counternarcotics progressand cooperation.

Congress established a procedure whereby each year the president must "certify" that a given country is cooperating with us in the eradication of drug production and trafficking; must end.

All too often, industry seems to be viewed as the villain, yet industry is ultimately responsible for bringing to the market almost all new medical solutions.

The dearth of school leaders is at least partially self-imposed by Maryland's reliance on archaic principal certification requirements.