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Last month the Wall Street Journal editorial board (“The Great Biden Welfare Blowout”) reviewed the staggering number of welfare recipients in key programs at the close of the Biden administration: ...

On May 17, Representative Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) and six other members of the House of Representatives, all Democrats, proposed an additional stimulus measure built as an “automatic stabilizer.” The idea ...

As Noam pointed out earlier, government spending played a big part in limiting the decline in GDP last quarter -- and it was largely a result of automatic stabilizers like unemployment insurance and ...

The idea of a fourth stimulus payment is more topical than ever, as the final checks from the third payment – passed as part of the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan Act in March 2020 – are ...