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View More NewsHealthy jobs report: The federal government’s jobs report released this morning shows unexpectedly healthy employment growth in January. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. According to the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the economy added 130,000 jobs over the past month. That was enough to keep the unemployment rate steady at 4.3 percent. The reported employment growth is far in excess of economists’ anemic estimates that the economy added just 55,000 to 69,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate is still up from a…
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I.In February 1775, Alexander Hamilton wrote a caustic response to a loyalist pamphlet published by Samuel Seabury, in which he accused Seabury of advancing the “cause of despotism.” “The sacred rights of mankind,” he writes, “are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”The American Revolution was the most radical of history’s successful political projects. It began as a revolt to defend the rights of…
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