Rescuing the Lost Generation

With 25 million unemployed or underemployed Americans, there’s a segment of the population that is generally being ignored: today’s youth. The unemployment rate in April of this year for 20- to 24-year-olds is 13.2 percent. According to a Pew Research Center study completed in December of 2011, the share of young adults aged 18 to 24 currently employed of 54 percent is the lowest since the government began collecting data in 1948. And the gap in employment between the young... Read More

The Defender of American Entrepreneurialism

The most powerful words in the English language are included in the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words clearly define, launch and chart the very foundation of American entrepreneurialism. Our cherished principles of equality, economic freedom and individual liberty... Read More