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When Creating Jobs, Look at Company's Age, Not Its Size

There’s a fascinating article in today’s Wall Street Journal discussing the best way for government to help spur job creation.

Unfortunately, in troubled economic times the language of recovery is too often tilted toward large, established companies or to "small businesses," a broad term that traditionally applies to businesses with fewer than 500 employees. The conventional wisdom is that such businesses account for half of the labor force and are therefore the engine of future job creation.

That's not quite the case. The more precise factor is not the size of businesses, but rather their age. According to the Census Bureau, nearly all net job creation in the U.S. since 1980 occurred in firms less than five years old. A Kauffman Foundation report released yesterday shows…[more]

November 06, 2009 • 06:07 pm
The White House War on Speech

The White House War on Speech

This is the new price of dissent in America. Where once free speech was truly free, being on the 'wrong side' of the Administration now carries a high cost.

Conservatism, Feet Planted

Conservatism, Feet Planted

Americans writ large may not be policy wonks, but they know you cannot spend your way to prosperity, protect a nation through apologies or expand any man’s stock of freedom by contracting another’s.  They don’t resent difficult choices as much as they resent being lied to ab...

Let-Them-Eat-Cake Nancy

Let-Them-Eat-Cake Nancy

Marie Antoinette had nothing on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, except perhaps Marie’s ignominious end, no longer practiced in civilized countries.

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ObamaCare's Demonstration Projects

Bob Dorigo Jones, bestselling author and Senior Fellow for the Foundation for Fair Civil Justice, discusses why President Obama's promise to conduct "demonstration projects" to determine whether medical liability and tort reform will work is a day late and many billions of dollars short[more]
Obama's Foreign Policy… or Lack Thereof

Troy Senik, CFIF Contributing Editor and former speechwriter for Pres. George W. Bush, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, discusses Obama's foreign policy, the Administration's alternative vision for U.S. national security and the backfiring of the Nobel Peace[more]
Health Care Reform: 12 Looming Questions

Susan Ferrechio, Chief Congressional Correspondent at The Washington Examiner, discusses 12 looming questions Americans have on health care "reform," and President Obama's defensive full court press on the issue[more]
 
No Ceiling on Reckless Government Spending

The national debt is approaching $12.1 trillion.  And, Congress is expected to raise the debt ceiling even higher later this year.  In this week's Freedom Minute, CFIF's…[more]
Government's Next Takeover Target: The Internet

The FCC recently voted to advance the process to pass "Net Neutrality" regulations, something Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and others have called "the Fairness Doctrine…[more]
Nancy Pelosi Coddling Corruption

In this week's Freedom Minute, CFIF's Renee Giachino comments on how the culture of corruption in Washington has gotten worse, not better, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi's…[more]
An Era of Open and Transparent Government?

Upon taking office, President Obama and the current Congressional leadership promised the most open and transparent government in U.S. history. What happened? CFIF's Renee Giachino…[more]
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Veterans Day is celebrated annually on November 11th for which of the following reasons?
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 "Whether it was directed from a foreign or domestic source, it is still an act of terror."…[more]
 
 
—Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee Ranking Member
— Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee Ranking Member
 
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