There is cause for concern regarding the viability and health of many state unemployment insurance trust funds, and federal policies to promote job creation are the single most important determinant of solvency.

Some consumers and businesses might see a little extra cash this summer as a result of the 2010 health care law. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates will be delivered from health insurers who spent more than the law allotted on administrative expenses and profits.

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

While the U.S. labor market has deteriorated in the last few months, aggregate conditions are not worse than they were when extended unemployment insurance benefits were enacted in 2002.

How does the government measure poverty in America? What are the pros and cons of its methods?

This nation employs several methods for taxing capital income, both at the individual and the corporate level.  There is a massive economic literature that documents strong theoretical and empirical support for the United States to reduce its capital taxes

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) economist Aparna Mathur explains that the way to promote income equality is to lower corporate taxes.

Ominously labeled "Taxmageddon," a host of tax policy changes are set to occur at year-end, and there truly is much at stake: $3.67 trillion of additional tax revenue over 10 years from the Bush tax cuts alone.