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Imposed minimum wage hikes hurt economies in American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Illustration on Obamacare by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: ‘7 million’ not exactly an Obamacare milestone

By Donald Lambro

Ryan unveils House GOP budget claiming balance

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

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Demonstrators opposing deportations hold up signs while chanting in English and Spanish outside of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash. Tuesday, March 11, 2014. A hunger strike at the detention center that started with hundreds of participants is down to five detainees on its fifth day, and they are under medical evaluation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Economists: Increasing immigration is one of the ways to spark growth

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

What Fed Says: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announces that the outlook for growth and jobs is the same as it was late last year. Story, A5. (Associated Press)

Is economic growth stuck in low gear the new normal?

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf speaks about the office's annual Budget and Economic Outlook during a news conference at the Ford House Office Building in Washington on Feb. 5, 2013. (Associated Press)

CHOUGULE: Conservative economics win CBO approval

By Akash Chougule

Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 5, 2014, before the House Budget Committee hearing on the CBO budget and economic outlook. (Associated Press)

CBO chief: Projected job loss numbers from minimum wage hike are fluid

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks at a meeting with Democratic female members of Congress to discuss the administration&#8217;s economic agenda and minimum wage efforts at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. From left are Rep. Nydia Vel&#225;zquez, D-N.Y., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Mn., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama: Raising minimum wage will close gender gap

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - This Feb. 1, 2012 file photo shows Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. More people than previously estimated will reduce their hours or leave the workforce because of incentives built into President Barack Obama’s health care law, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

YOUNG: Obamacare’s income-inequality factor

By J.T. Young

President Barack Obama speaks on the importance of raising the minimum wage during an event at at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn., Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Obama traveled to Hartford, Conn., area to highlight the importance of raising the minimum wage and then will travel to Boston for a pair of Democratic fundraising. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Undaunted, Obama continues minimum-wage push

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama will meet with the governors of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island on Wednesday to discuss minimum wage. (Associated Press)

New England governors, Obama to push minimum wage

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. faces reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, following a closed-door Democratic policy meeting. The Senate seemed ready Tuesday to vote preliminary approval of a sprawling Democratic bill expanding health, education and other benefits for veterans, but the election-year measure faced conservative opposition and an uncertain fate as Republicans try to make it smaller and find ways to pay for it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dems to push ahead on minimum wage as Reid delays Senate vote

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Jason Furman speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Feb. 4, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

RAHN: Obama spokespeople deny what we know to be true

By Richard W. Rahn

President Obama reacts during an Oval Office meeting in this file photo. (White House photo/Pete Souza) ** FILE **

Obama’s stimulus beginning to drag economy down

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper listens as President Barack Obama speaks to North American business, civil society and education leaders in Toluca, Mexico Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, before the seventh trilateral North American Leaders Summit Meeting. This year's theme is &#8220;North American Competitiveness.&#8221; (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

EDITORIAL: CBO says minimum-wage increase could hurt economy

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** In this Feb. 6, 2014, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Minimum wage hike would kill a half-million jobs: CBO

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2014 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. It was once the backbone of the House Republican majority _ the steadfast stand that brought President Barack Obama to the negotiating table and yielded more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, it abruptly vanished, the victim of Republican disunity and a president determined not to bargain again. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

EDITORIAL: Debt-ceiling cowardice costs

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

KNUDSEN: The Obamacare hit on the nation’s fiscal health

By Patrick Louis Knudsen

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, the day after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: The Democrats’ job lock ruse

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times