Entitlements

Job seekers fill out a job applications at a Bed Bath and Beyond table at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla. (AP/Alan Diaz)

Jobless claims again scrape 15-year lows

Joseph Lawler · May 21, 2015 12:53 pm

"Somebody who's retiring today at age 62 will still be 80 or less by the time the trust fund exhausts and they get an across-the-board 25 percent cut," Goldwein said. (Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Save Social Security now, before it’s too late

Jason Russell · May 14, 2015 3:56 pm

To represent business, the Chamber must advocate lower spending and debt reduction. (iStock)

Fiscal train wreck

Joseph Lawler · May 11, 2015 9:00 am

Erika Padilla, center, and Michael McKeown, right, meet with job applicants during a National Career Fairs job fair, in Chicago. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims on Thursday, May 7, 2015. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Jobless claims scrape lowest levels in 15 years

Joseph Lawler · May 7, 2015 12:45 pm

In this May 5, 2015, photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks to supporters in Hope, Ark., as he announces that he is seeking the Republican nomination in the 2016 race for president. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Why Huckabee’s Social Security social conservatism matters

W. James Antle III · May 6, 2015 8:49 pm

The Coming GOP Divide

Stephen F. Hayes · May 4, 2015 4:00 am

"After a 50-year war on poverty and trillions of dollars spent, we still have the same poverty rates, 45 million people in poverty," Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and former GOP vice presidential nominee, said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner File)

Ryan: War on Poverty not working

Susan Ferrechio · May 3, 2015 4:41 pm

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez (C) talks with Shake Shack employee Jamelle Bland (R) while making a milkshake during a tour of the restaurant with Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti (L) March 21, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Bipartisan support for a pension alternative

Jason Russell · April 29, 2015 8:50 pm

In Praise of Christie’s Social Security Proposal

Delany Higgins · April 25, 2015 1:18 pm

Can Chris Christie come back?

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Can Chris Christie come back?

Byron York · April 23, 2015 7:43 am

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton tours a lab with student Travis Lemieux, left, during a campaign stop at New Hampshire Technical Institute, Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton moves leftward on trade and entitlements, to block primary opposition

Michael Barone · April 21, 2015 8:15 pm

Gov. Steve Bullock responds to a question, Feb. 26, 2013, in Helena, Mont. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)

29th Medicaid expansion lacks only signature from Montana’s Democrat governor

Paige Winfield Cunningham · April 18, 2015 7:56 pm