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Academics often believe they are the smartest people around, and they like to tell others how best to live their lives. Add the government’s power to control people’s lives and you have a dangerous combination. Americans got a taste of this elitism when MIT’s Jonathan Gruber mocked “the stupidity of …

Friday, the Labor Department is expected to report the economy added about 215,000 jobs in September, about half of what is needed each month to bring unemployment down to pre-financial crisis levels. The official unemployment rate is 6.1 percent, but that hardly provides a fair description of the jobs crisis. …

Ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats have pushed back hard against Republican reluctance to raise the minimum wage. But to really address income inequality, federal and state governments should shift funds from colleges and universities and redirect resources and students into vocational programs. The U.S. economy supports many well-paying jobs …