President Obama’s Health and Human Services Department undermined the work requirement legislated in the 1996 welfare reform bill, but 83 percent of Americans disagree with the president on that position. “Most Americans think there are too many people on welfare who should not be getting it and believe overwhelmingly that those who… Read more

Dear Mr. President: Congress and the White House must begin now to resolve fundamental fiscal and tax issues confronting America. The current political paralysis hindering principled compromise has fueled needless economic uncertainty that impedes a more robust economic recovery.  Without effective action… Read more

  Determined to destroy Bill Clinton's signature achievement, President Barack Obama's Administration has opened a loophole in the 1996 Welfare Reform legislation big enough to make the law ineffective. Its work requirement -- the central feature of the legislation -- has been diluted beyond recognition by the bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human… Read more

“The Obama administration has quietly opened the door for states to seek major changes in how they meet federal welfare-to-work requirements….What started out as just another bureaucratic memorandum drew a swift rebuke from one of the authors of welfare reform, as… Read more

Welfare to work is the cornerstone of a reform passed in 1996 by a Republican Congress and signed by Bill Clinton. The Obama administration on Thursday announced it was taking steps to gut this landmark law. The theory behind welfare reform was people on government assistance not only should work towards getting a job but actually want one. The law is credited… Read more

So the 2013 tax cliff is a big enough economic problem that President Obama now wants to postpone it for some taxpayers. But it isn't so big that he's willing to curb his desire to raise taxes on tens of thousands of job-creating businesses. That's the essence of Mr. Obama's announcement Monday that he wants Congress to extend current tax rates for… Read more

WASHINGTON – Can the Internal Revenue Service police President Obama's health care mandate while simultaneously collecting all the taxes for running the federal government? The question is being renewed in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision upholding most of the 2010 Affordable Care Act as a tax issue rather than one of interstate commerce. Nearly 2½ years before taxpayers… Read more

Consider three numbers — 40, 8 and 13. For 40 consecutive months, the U.S. unemployment rate has been at 8 percent or higher, and nearly 13 million Americans are currently looking for work. America is in crisis. Unemployment remains high, employers are paralyzed by economic and regulatory uncertainty that stifles their ability to invest and hire, and we are but a few short months… Read more

By Emily Miller Republicans have finally figured out how to corner President Obama on the tax issue. Within six months, Americans will be hit with a $4.3 trillion tax hike supported by Mr. Obama. By moving to pass legislation next month to stop "Taxmaggedon," the GOP is putting itself on the side of ordinary Americans. On Tuesday, House Ways and Means Committee… Read more

We pay our presidents for judgment, and President Obama committed a colossal error of judgment in making health-care “reform” a centerpiece of his first term. Ahead of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — and regardless of how the court decides — it’s clear that Obama overreached. His attempt to achieve universal health insurance coverage is a massive feat of… Read more