Articles

Special Report
Government Funded Nonprofits Fail to Help Seniors
Capital Research Center gratefully acknowledges the assistance provided by OpenTheBooks.com in compiling federal grant data for fiscal year 2017, which provided the impetus for this research. This piece is…
by Robert Stilson on January 22, 2019

Special Report
Government Funded Nonprofits Fail to Help Seniors (Part 2)
In its 2019 Budget in Brief, the Department of Labor declined to request any funding for the SCSEP, stating instead that the program is “ineffective at meeting its purpose of…
by Robert Stilson on January 22, 2019

Philanthropy
Study Reveals Damage Done by Insidious Licensing Laws
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on January 22, 2019. If I keep returning to the harms caused by arbitrary and intrusive occupational licensing, it’s because licenses block people…
by Martin Morse Wooster on January 22, 2019

Labor Watch
CRC Submits Comments to Labor Board
When the federal government wants to issue a new regulation (or repeal an old regulation), it is required by law to solicit “public comments” from interested parties. Today, Capital Research…
by Michael Watson on January 21, 2019

Featured Items
Featured Video: How the Worldwide Far-Left Seeks Power
Entryism is a political strategy of infiltration, first taught by Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1934, in which “members of one group are encouraged to enter a larger organization with…
by CRC Staff on January 21, 2019

Organization Trends
Leftist Groups Distance Themselves from Discredited Women’s March
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is one of the latest high-profile groups to have seemingly pulled its support for the Women’s March in advance of the group’s annual major…
by Ashley Rae Goldenberg on January 18, 2019

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode #57: Fast Food Under Attack?!
In this episode: two multi-year labor union campaigns reach their climaxes as Democrats introduce a $15 minimum wage bill at the behest of the Service Employees International Union and the…
by CRC Staff on January 18, 2019

Philanthropy
History of Diabetes Cure Offers Useful Lessons for Think Tanks
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on January 17, 2019. It’s fair to say that John D. Rockefeller’s creation of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which is…
by Martin Morse Wooster on January 17, 2019

Labor Watch
SEIU Takes The Fight For 15 To The Footsteps of Congress
On Wednesday, Democrats and left-wing members of Congress announced their support for the Raise the Wage Act, a proposed law that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per…
by Leonard Robinson III on January 17, 2019

Green Watch
Russia’s Uranium Gambit: An Underappreciated Energy Source
Russia’s Uranium Gambit (full series) An Underappreciated Energy Source | America’s Available Resources | An Unstable Market | The Real Uranium One Scandal Summary: Most Americans…
by Ned Mamula on January 15, 2019