The message of work and opportunity appeals to this disproportionately middle-class minority. By Phil Gramm and John Early Oct. 19, 2022 6:14 pm ET Hispanics are one of the fastest growing census demographics in America, and their realignment away from the Democratic Party is a political earthquake in the making. If polls are...

The Census Bureau’s tallies still don’t include $1.9 trillion in government transfer payments. By Phil Gramm and John Early Sept. 20, 2022 12:40 pm ET House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer assured us in July 2021 that expanding the child tax credit would “cut the nation’s child poverty rate in half.” Shortly thereafter,...

Those in the middle work much harder, but don’t earn much more, than those at the bottom. By Phil Gramm and John Early Aug. 29, 2022 12:04 pm ET Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most dramatic and consequential change in the distribution of income in America in the past half-century isn’t rising income...

I saw him put the country’s interests ahead of his own more than once. We could use a leader like that now. By Phil Gramm Aug. 16, 2022 6:23 pm ET President Biden’s signing of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act brings back four-decade-old memories of better economic leadership. On Aug. 13,...