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Republican Study Committee proposal to prohibit government employees from fulfilling union responsibilities while on government time threatens body blow to to the ability of federal unions to represent more than a million workers.

Is there actually proof that regulation and job creation are invariably in tension?

Last week’s proposal from a group of Republicans in the House of Representatives to slash federal spending by more than $2 trillion over 10 years includes a proposal that could strip away federal funds for research on an array of energy-related projects, and potentially make it harder for new technologies to reach the marketplace.

We asked a range of conservatives what could be done to enable more two-parent families to maintain a middle class existence with greater work-life balance. Here's what they had to say.

China's cornering of production of key minerals aided by U.S."free trade" posture.

How will people experience not being able to retire during what, for many, are their "most golden" years?

States representing as little as 27 percent of U.S. population could trump Congress, President, and Supreme Court under proposed constitutional amendment.

Roughly 300,000 miles of large-diameter pipeline make up the long distance gas transport system.

Few institutions in the country today are less loved than the Federal Reserve. At a time when disillusionment with Washington and Wall Street is rife, the Fed — which is quite literally a hybrid of the government and the banking sector — has come under widespread attack. And while there are important differences between the critiques offered by the right and the left, there are common threads, too. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, blasting the “veil of secrecy” surrounding the Fed’s emergency lending program at the height of the financial crisis, struck a tone sounded by many Fed critics: the institution is unaccountable, opaque, and unduly responsive to entrenched interests.

To the extent that there’s merit to this complaint, why might it be so? What elements of the Fed’s formal and informal institutional design contribute to this situation?

One of the striking things about the package is an approach to stimulus that wasn't even part of the talks: aid to strapped states.

California once believed in providing a liberal education of the highest quality and at the lowest cost to students. Now, with funding already well below historic highs, some want to to shift to 'workforce building.'