Podcast: Connecting More People to Work
Dr. Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and Mr. Oren Cass, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute join JEC Executive Director Scott Winship to talk how to connect more people to work.
Chairman Lee on October's Employment Numbers
Today, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee Mike Lee (R-UT) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Labor Department October 2019 jobs report...
JEC Chairman Lee on Third Quarter GDP Growth
GDP grew 1.9% in the third quarter estimate for 2019, beating projected estimates. Personal income growth remained strong, allowing consumers to lead economic growth over the quarter even as they also increased personal savings. Residential investment growth, led by single family home construction, ...
Podcast: Making it More Affordable to Raise a Family
Witnesses Lyman Stone, American Enterprise Institute Research Fellow and Ryan Bourne, R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics at CATO join JEC Executive Director Scott Winship to talk family affordability.
Chairman Lee on July's Strong Employment Numbers
Today, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee Mike Lee (R-UT) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Labor Department July 2019 jobs report.
JEC Chairman Lee on Second Quarter GDP Growth
GDP grew at 2.1% in the second quarter, beating expectations though slowing from last quarter’s 3.1% rate. The increase confirms other economic data showing we have matched the longest economic expansion on record, quarter for quarter. The annual GDP revisions also show that growth in 2017 was stro...
Chairman Lee on the Longest Economic Expansion on Record
Today, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee Mike Lee (R-UT) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Labor Department June 2019 jobs report...
Chairman Lee: The Economy Remains Fundamentally Resilient
Today, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee Mike Lee (R-UT) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Labor Department May 2019 jobs report...
Podcast: The Economic Impacts of the 2020 Census and Business Uses of Federal Data
Following the JEC's second hearing, The Economic Impacts of the 2020 Census and Business Uses of Federal Data, Scott Winship was joined by Mallory Bateman, State Data Center Coordinator and Research Analyst at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute and Nick Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Eco...
Op-Ed: Brain Drain and the Polarization of America
Are we more divided as a nation today than we were before? Our new research within the Joint Economic Committee’s Social Capital Project suggests that we are. The findings indicate that Americans are more frequently dividing themselves geographically and along lines of education. Highly educated Ame...
