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<title><![CDATA[Joseph Lawler - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19740.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Joseph Lawler]]></description><category domain="19740">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Real Cost of Bailing Out Puerto Rico]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2590631/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A preview of this month's scramble to save Puerto Rico from a debt catastrophe played out in the fall between two familiar adversaries in a Senate office hearing room. On the witness side of the dais was Antonio Weiss, the Treasury counselor dispatched to warn the Senate Energy and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marco Rubio: 'Time Has Passed' for Social Security Privatization]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/marco-rubio-time-has-passed-for-social-security-privatization/article/2570854</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Optimism About U.S. Growth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2013/02/18/chart_living_standards_are_growing_fast_428.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a longer piece for the Breakthrough Institute, Brookings&rsquo; Scott Winship pushes back against nostalgia for the economy of the &lsquo;50s and &lsquo;60s, and makes the case for optimism about the long-term prospects for rising prosperity in the U.S.Winship&rsquo;s key insight is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Benefits Expiration &amp; Lower Unemployment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2013/02/05/did_expiration_of_benefits_cause_a_drop_in_the_long-term_unemployed_418.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CNN Money presents an interesting case that the recent drop in the number of long-term unemployed workers -- one of the brighter spots in recent job reports -- is actually bad news.The author, Tami Luhby, cites a few left-of-center experts, including the Center for American Progress'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Credits and Hidden Welfare Spending]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2013/01/25/welfare_spending_through_the_tax_code_409.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Budget Office takes a look a refundable tax credits in its latest report. These measures allow folks tax credits even if they have no liability -- in other words, the government just cuts them a check for a specific activity or purchase.This chart shows how much the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Highlights Agenda in Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2013/01/21/obama_highlights_agenda_items_with_inaugural_speech_405.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama&rsquo;s second inaugural address represented an attempt to connect the two-term president's agenda to the founding documents, and contained a laundry list of the specific items he hopes to pursue. Although the speech was more aggressively liberal than might have been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where the States Are On ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2013/01/18/update_where_the_states_stand_in_implementing_obamacare_404.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The folks at the American Action Forum update a graphic that illustrates the number-one topic in health care policy right now, namely the states' implementation of the Affordable Care Act:This is, of course, an important development to keep an eye on.Joseph Lawler is editor of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Much Deficit Reduction Do We Need?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2013/01/16/is_14_trillion_in_deficit_reduction_all_we_need_403.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his Monday press conference, President Obama suggested that the federal budget is only $1.4 trillion in deficit reduction from stabilizing the debt:The consensus is we need about $4 trillion to stabilized our debt and our deficit, which means we need about $1.5 trillion more. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Treasury Manage Its Own Payments?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2013/01/14/can_the_treasury_manage_its_own_payment_system_398.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Photo of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner from the White House Flickr feed)As the date when the government will be forced to miss some of its payments because of the debt ceiling draws nearer, it&rsquo;s worth considering the effects of the Treasury&rsquo;s failure to clarify exactly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Assault and Homicide: U.S. vs. Canada]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2013/01/11/assault_and_homicide_us_vs_canada_396.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pseudonymous Ironman of the Political Calculations has provided an interesting way of thinking about America&rsquo;s gun laws. Canada is a lot like the U.S. in many ways, and it has stricter gun laws than we do. Comparing violence in the U.S. to that in Canada might be instructive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Families Double Health Care Spending in 10 Years]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/31/family_health_care_spending_eclipses_20000_390.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's appropriate that the last RealClearPolicy chart of 2012 should be one that strikes at the heart of U.S. policy developments and debates over the past few years. Dan Munro highlights a chart based on health care spending data from the actuarial company Milliman that indicates that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare and Market-Based Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/14/the_post-obamacare_playbook_for_market-based_health_care_reform_377.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The election settled the biggest domestic policy question of the past few years: Obamacare will be implemented, not repealed. Would-be conservative reformers, such as the American Enterprise Institute&rsquo;s Thomas Miller, are now thinking about how best to introduce market reforms with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Which States Depend the Most on Federal Spending?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/12/which_states_are_the_biggest_moochers_375.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Which states rely the most on the federal government for revenues? This chart from the Tax Foundation illustrates the answer:All the states get between about a quarter and a half of their revenues from the feds. Mississippi is the biggest moocher, depending on the federal government for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[State and Local Job Losses Level Off]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/10/state_and_local_employment_levels_off_just_in_time_for_fiscal_cliff_374.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chris Mai of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities presents a chart that captures one of the most significant trends in the U.S. economy: the gradual stabilization of state and local payrolls over the past few years:The recession drastically lowered revenues at every level of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Wages Haven't Kept Pace with Growth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/06/why_wages_havent_kept_pace_with_economic_growth_370.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The blog Political Calculations took on an interesting question: How can this chart, which shows the average wage falling below the level of GDP over capita over the postway period, be explained?At first glance, this chart poses a puzzle. How could average U.S. wages start out in 1950...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Middle Income Earners Face Higher Rates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/11/16/low-_and_middle-income_earners_face_high_marginal_tax_rates_355.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a new report, the Congressional Budget Office highlights an overlooked problem: the steep marginal tax rates facing low-income Americans.&ldquo;Marginal tax rates&rdquo; is a technical way of saying &ldquo;disincentives to work.&rdquo; In fact, some of the greatest disincentives to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Policy Notes on the Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/11/07/policy_notes_on_the_election_345.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last night&rsquo;s elections were an endorsement of the status quo, with President Obama returning to the White House, Democrats retaining the Senate, and Republicans holding onto a sizable lead in the House. Voters were more comfortable with the existing arrangements for the next two or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Leads in Regulations Issued]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/11/02/president_obama_leads_in_regulations_issued_338.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ironman of the blog Political Calculations compares recent presidents by average number of regulations issued per year, and finds President Obama leading the pack:The regulation numbers are from the Mercatus Center's Regdata, a database of federal regulations.Joseph Lawler is editor of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Excuses for the Weak Recovery]]></title>
							<link>blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/report-epa-delaying-job-killing-regulations-to-aid-obama-re-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Deprives Biden of Social Security Attack]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/10/10/obama_deprives_biden_of_social_security_attack_315.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;But &mdash; but I want to talk about the values behind Social Security and Medicare,&rdquo; President Obama announced during last week&rsquo;s presidential debate, before trying to draw a contrast between his and Mitt Romney&rsquo;s plans for those entitlement programs.The problem...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everyone's Payroll Taxes Are Going Up Next Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/10/01/why_everyones_payroll_taxes_are_going_up_next_year_301.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The payroll tax cut, slated to expire on January first, is doomed. Although the fates of so many other fiscal provisions are unclear as the government approaches the fiscal cliff, the payroll tax cut's is not, as been more or less abandoned by both Republicans and Democrats.At first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care Costs Are Rising Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/09/27/health_care_costs_rising_again_296.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Health Care Cost Institute bears bad news: the health care cost growth slowdown has ended.Previously, health care spending increases under 4 percent in 2009 and 2010 had provided some hope that the days of system-wide unsustainable cost growth were over. But HCCI reports that, at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Market-Based Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/09/19/health_care_economist_john_goodman_on_health_care_markets_290.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Goodman, a health care economist at the National Center for Policy Analysis and prolific blogger, argues that America's health care system doesn't function like a real market in his new Independence Institute book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis. RealClearPolicy spoke with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to Obama's Green Jobs?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/09/07/five_million_green_jobs_become_600000_natural_gas_one_281.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his nomination acceptance speech last night, President Obama promised 600,000 new jobs producing natural gas. That&rsquo;s a far cry from his pledge at the 2008 convention to usher in 5 million new green jobs.Whether or not Obama&rsquo;s  promise four years ago was ever realistic, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[TARP's Goodfellas: Behind the Bailouts]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/07/tarps-goodfellas</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neil Barofsky can be forgiven a little posturing. Early on in his short stint as Special Inspector General for TARP -- the bank bailouts -- he realized that he had no choice but to set aside bureaucratic caution and seize the mantle of whistleblower and reformer.Barofsky, who before...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debt Ceilings and Dirty Dealings]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/17/debt_ceilings_and_dirty_dealings_113155.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week White House press secretary Jay Carney previewed one of the Democrats&rsquo; key campaign themes for the fall. Asked if the administration&rsquo;s newly released budget was timid compared to the &ldquo;grand bargain&rdquo; fiscal reforms President Obama had previously pitched...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Millennials and Hope]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2010/12/27/millennials-and-hope</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Lawler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Experience suggests that belief in the American Dream is nothing more than ballast to be thrown overboard as soon as the economy weakens. Certainly that is the role it has played in this recession. Two of the most memorable newspaper articles of the past year were proclamations of the...]]></description>
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