The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that they have experienced depression because of...

The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.

FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure, like...

Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory...

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of...

If you are being held back by some unnecessary government rule or process, we will provide an easy way for you to let us know. And whenever we can take action, we will do so quickly.

The process of rebuilding state operations - including the important work of fueling job growth - began the day I took office.

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from...

Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

Any strategy, policy call or future manifesto should not view a child's health through the narrow prism of what they eat, but put diet on an equal footing with mental health and physical activity.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow -...

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10...

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it

the Reagan years produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history... .The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent... while the income of those...

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments have the country well along the path to a lawless society.

He continued receiving the salary he was entitled to as a university professor when he reached retirement age.

Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.

But at least their provision was universal, and for good and ill they were regarded as a public responsibility.

The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike. What matters is not how...

Inclusive economic institutions, such as those in South Korea or in the United States, are those that allow and encourage participation by the great mass of people in economic activities that make...

So then, why not give the workers spoons instead of shovels?

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what...