A new Axios-Harris poll bolsters the idea that Washington D.C. policymakers and Bidenomics have utterly failed most Americans. Some topline findings: “Republicans, rural residents, renters, women and singles disproportionately feel like they’re in a big fat funk financially…” “Six in 10 surveyed say they’re now ‘triggered’ by trips to the grocery store.” “Grocery purchases are...
Millions of potential and current college students fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) every year. In 2020, Congress passed a law updating the FAFSA and the aid formulas for 2024, but the Department of Education’s (ED) release of the new FAFSA has been a fiasco. Despite having three years to prepare,...
A plan to build a multi-billion dollar transmission line from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to Mississippi, dubbed Southern Spirit by its developer Pattern Energy, has made waves on social media this past week after the Dallas Morning News wrote about the project, followed by other Texas media outlets. The project, which has been in the...
On Tuesday, former State Senator John Whitmire was sworn-in as the Bayou City’s next mayor and he made it clear that public safety will be front-and-center. He said: “My number one priority and the priority of Houstonians is public safety. If we do not address public safety, the other quality of life issues will not...
The simple fact is that American families are worse off under President Biden – and the spin can’t hide that. “All good—” President Joe Biden said about the economy, bristling at a reporter’s question on Christmas Eve. “Take a look. Start reporting it the right way.” Even Biden’s allies in the media are doing their...
Biden actions could mean an additional $11 billion in taxpayer funds for California. Much of America’s future is made, tested, and—more often than not in recent years—fails in California. California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom just announced that California would begin providing health care coverage to an additional 764,000 illegal immigrants on top of the 1.1...
Famed free-market economist Thomas Sowell once remarked that “Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.” Sowell’s insight is not only correct, but it’s also a fitting lens through which to view Harris County’s new guaranteed income pilot program, Uplift Harris. To start, Uplift Harris is...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. With less than two weeks until the Iowa Caucus and exactly two months (tomorrow) until the Texas primaries, election season is in full swing. America’s election system should be the...
Congress has a chance to help millions of Americans move from welfare to work while fixing one of the country’s most broken federal programs. Lawmakers are preparing to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which controls the vast and failed federal workforce-development system. Instead of doubling down on the longstanding approach of wasting money...
It is not the best of times. Our country is so hopelessly and hatefully divided that we can’t even agree on enough facts to have a decent argument. Millions of people from all over the world are streaming across the border, it seems like half the country is marching in the streets in support of...
Elections officials can learn tangible lessons from Charles Dickens’ classic novel, A Christmas Carol. As we head into the 2024 presidential election, it would be wise to learn from the Ghosts of Elections Past, Present, and Future. Ebenezer Scrooge spent years in recurring misery, making the same mistakes over and over again. His cycle of...
Famed free-market economist Milton Friedman once quipped that: “I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.” Today, many Americans, beset by the twin troubles of Bidenomics and rampant inflation, are echoing Friedman’s call for tax relief and are looking to the nation’s leaders...