Medicaid has extended health-care coverage to millions of people beyond the intended initial population of children, the elderly, the disabled, and those who are truly in need. It has instead become a benefit hammock for many who would otherwise not qualify.| The Center for Renewing America
Opponents of reform claim that any changes to the Medicaid program are massive “cuts” that will cause beneficiaries harm. In reality, the opposite is true: Failing to change a program with such rapidly exploding costs will only result in the unsustainability that ultimately harms its recipients.| The Center for Renewing America
America’s shipbuilding industry has been treated as if it is in hospice rather than infirmary care, receiving only the bare minimum to sustain operations while its workers and equipment age into dysfunction.| The Center for Renewing America
Primer: The American Canal – The Case for Revisiting the Panama Canal Treaties| The Center for Renewing America
American communities are ravaged by opioids, families are fearful about basic safety, and parents are…| The Center for Renewing America
As Alexander Hamilton knew, the nation’s political independence is a dead letter without industrial independence, too.| The Center for Renewing America
Taken out of the theoretical abstractions of Econ 101, debates about American tariff policy have appropriately tended to focus on the American historical experience. How has trade policy seemed to work out in the past? Have tariffs been good for America?| The Center for Renewing America
When two countries engage in escalating protectionist measures, you have a trade war, but good jobs with fair wages in healthy communities are worth fighting for.| The Center for Renewing America
By functionally making foreign labor more expensive, a universal tariff can protect American industries with good-paying jobs.| The Center for Renewing America
Inflation is primarily a monetary issue; a universal tariff creates a price of entry to the US market that will affect different imports and importers differently.| The Center for Renewing America
Tariffs seek to protect national industries from foreign competitors; they are also a revenue source and a carrot and stick in foreign policy negotiations.| The Center for Renewing America