Research -- The Heritage Foundation

Top conservatives try to figure out how much Obama’s debt reduction plan will raise taxes (more)

The study discusses how the government has become more centralized and what politicians credited with the shift in power from the states to the federal government  (more)

The US national debt situation is one of the world’s worst, with the national debt projected to reach 62 percent of the economy (more)

This booklet provides a snapshot of Americans’ economic freedom and compares conditions in the U.S. with those in other countries, in hopes of ensuing a bold reform (more)

The problems with the NEW START program is outlined  (more)

Good and bad ideas for the feds about how to handle to deep sea drilling is explained. Lieberman focuses on those most effected, Louisiana fisherman and residents, ideas and how they have been reacting to the spill and how the government should help them.  (more)

Many states are lobbying the Senate to extend the Medicaid bailout enacted in the February 2009 stimulus bill. While several attempts by Senate leaders to extend the bailout passed by the House have failed, it is likely to be brought to the floor again. (more)

China has at least $2.5 trillion in foreign exchange and must, due to its own balance of payments rules, invest it all overseas (more)

With Herculean-like effort, the Obama Administration continues to insist that the New START treaty between the United States and Russia will not limit U.S. ballistic missile defense or the strategic options available to the President. However, numerous limitations and other problematic issues have continued to be exposed throughout the treaty. A recent Heritage Foundation panel [...] (more)

President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this week urged reluctant members of the United Nations Security Council to quickly pass sanctions against Iran. But that is highly unlikely, as Obama himself acknowledged: “Do we have unanimity in the international community? Not yet. And that’s something we have to work on.” In the absence [...] (more)

In March, employers added 162,000 jobs while the unemployment rate remained constant at 9.7 percent. The report contains some good news for the labor market, as hiring kept pace with an increase in the overall labor force. Hours of work were also up, indicating that the labor market has bottomed out and is beginning to [...] (more)

One of the little-noticed actions in the recently concluded session of the Chinese National People’s Congress was the enactment of a National Defense Mobilization Law. In an age when conventional conflicts are planned to conclude in a matter of days or weeks, it is striking that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) should choose to [...] (more)

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program provides scholarships for more than 1,700 District children to attend schools of their choice. But the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress are phasing it out (more)

The Obama Administration’s engagement policy toward Iran has failed to defuse the nuclear standoff (more)

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) admits that rather than actually examining the performance of the post-stimulus economy, it essentially re-released its old forecast that the stimulus would likely create jobs (more)

Americans have heard all about greedy bankers, huge bonuses, shady accounting practices, and outright greed. But the reason for this rhetoric is nothing less than an attempt to seize control of the financial services industry and to micromanage it (more)

America stands on the precipice of sweeping liberal health care reform that will radically reshape one-sixth of the U.S. economy, and a 153-page House bill is all that stands between us and a fundamentally changed America. What will that change look like? Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “we have to pass the bill so that [...] (more)

President Obama has been quite adamant about his push to transition to a clean energy economy, most notably by subsidizing wind and solar energy sources (more)

Resistance to higher fuel taxes to fund failed state and federal transportation programs has encouraged President Obama, some Members of Congress, and transportation lobbyists to endorse a federal infrastructure bank to invest in highways and transit (more)

Impose and enforce the strongest sanctions. The U.S. should push other concerned countries to enforce targeted sanctions on the Iranian regime and its internal security organs; ban all foreign investment, loans and credits, subsidized trade, and refined petroleum exports to Iran; and deny visas to its officials (more)