3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (111+ words) In 1971, 61 percent of Americans were middle class. By 2023, it was 51 percent – a 10-point drop. Which makes it sound like all this gloom is justified. Except… there’s a pretty big complication here. You hear “the middle class is shrinking” and you…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (141+ words) Don’t look now, but profits, hiring and pay packages are booming in the manufacturing sector. In the first half of last year, the manufacturing employment and production numbers were lame – and many rightly or wrongly blamed the Trump tariffs. But…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (208+ words) Mail-in ballots are now being sent out in many states two months ahead of Election Day. The clock is ticking on whether the Trump administration’s effort to enhance ballot security will actually take effect this election year. The U.S. Postal…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (155+ words) committeetounleashprosperity.com FROM THEUnleash Prosperity Hotline Americans Are Voting With Their Feet Against Big Labor Yesterday was Labor Day and Democrats used the holiday to celebrate labor unions. Our esteemed UP economist Richard Vedder of Ohio University has just completed…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (139+ words) We’re economists not sociologists, but the numbers in this poll are disturbing. Even if this 2025 poll is close to accurate, it tells you a lot about the political and social divide in America today, especially among millennials and GenZ cohorts....

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (177+ words) As regular HOTLINE readers know, Unleash Prosperity calculates advance estimates of monthly income gains and losses based on Census Bureau data. Our estimates are within one percent of the official numbers that are released about a year later. We just…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (135+ words) committeetounleashprosperity.com FROM THEUnleash Prosperity Hotline America’s Middle Class Is the Richest Speaking of Americans’ incomes, we are repeatedly told that the rich hoard all the wealth and income in America and that socialist Europe has a more equal society....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (240+ words) Hollywood has thumbed its nose at middle-class America for many decades, and now they want plumbers, construction workers and taxi drivers to bail them out. Many of the once-rich studios are going bankrupt or leaving Tinseltown, so the Hollywood brass…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (364+ words) So now the left is angry over the tilt of the court, which has six conservatives and three liberals. Why? Because elections have consequences. Sorry, this is the price you pay for nominating Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (224+ words) Democrats can’t seem to decide if they want to abolish the Supreme Court or stack it. On the one hand, the Democratic socialists want to do away with the highest court of the land (and replace it with what?), while…...