A Family Friendly Small Business Nightmare

On 01.25.10, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, By Betsy

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D

The Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 was inspired by the desire to help mothers manage working and family emergencies. Like many well-intentioned laws, the FMLA has been plagued by unintended consequences and expensive abuses, especially costly for small businesses. Like many bureaucratic programs, it has been abused by people who are savvy enough to scam the rules. Free negotiation by workers and firms potentially could provide a superior solution to the problems the FMLA was supposed to solve. (more…)

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CAN WESTERN CIVILIZATION SUSTAIN ITSELF?

On 11.26.08, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, By Betsy

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D

Published at ToTheSource.org November 26, 2008 and October 14, 2004.

Apparently, Western secularism pulled from its traditional roots cannot.

We cannot sustain ourselves economically because the Western democracies are committing financial suicide with federal spending and entitlement programs that they then push off onto future generations instead of paying today. (more…)

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The Empty European Village

On 06.06.08, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, By Betsy

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D

“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,” was Hillary Clinton’s Big Idea in the 1990s. Hillary’s supporters and detractors alike regard that slogan as a thinly-veiled code for increasing the government’s responsibility for the care of children. The demographic decline of Europe illustrates what would happen if we took this Village-Raising-Children image seriously. (more…)

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Government Divides, Families Unite – Pope Leo XIII saw it coming

On 05.23.07, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, By Betsy

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D

The title of Patricia Morgan’s new book, The War Between the State and the Family, says it all. The British government has engaged in “systematic discrimination against (married) couples in the tax and benefit system.” This persuasive book, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs in the UK, provides a cautionary tale about “deconstructing” the family into a mere collection of individuals. In so doing, Patricia Morgan provides an illustration of the principles of Catholic social teaching laid out in Leo’s 1891 letter, Rerum Novarum. (more…)

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The Ultimate Winner on the Immigration Issue

On 05.21.07, In Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D, By Betsy

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D

First published at Townhall.com May 21, 2007.

My Fellow Americans,

By the time I am sworn in as President, the current Congress will have passed “comprehensive immigration reform, ” because the elites of America have decided that’s what we need. But the ordinary citizens of the United States want and deserve the rule of law. The advocates of reform insist on rushing a debate on a bill so detailed that it requires one thousand pages. At this time, it is not humanly possible to know what immigration law will look like when I take the oath of office as the head of the Executive Branch of these United States. I want you, the citizens of the United States, to know what I intend to do once in office. (more…)

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