A Better Way to Track Unemployment

The headline unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent for June 2012 — down from 9.1 percent one year earlier. A declining unemployment rate is encouraging. But some of the improvement has come from those whose unemployment benefits have run out. Washington does not count these people as “unemployed.”

Newt U

National Review Online: NCPA President John C. Goodman participates in “Newt U” workshops, along with Utah Governor Gary Herbert, CNBC’s Larry Kudlow and Newt Gingrich.

NCPA: Romney's Overall Energy Plan Gets A 'B'

Proposed energy policies outlined today in New Mexico by GOP hopeful Mitt Romney will help boost domestic oil production, reducing the U.S. dependence on imported oil – but National Center for Policy Analysis Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett gives mixed grades to his other energy proposals.