WASHINGTON – The Heritage Foundation released its latest edition of the annual Index of Economic Freedom today. The 2025 Index, which covers economic policies and conditions in 184 countries from the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. The positive relationship between economic freedom and ...

Job growth in Kansas has largely tracked population growth rather than exceeding it, indicating limited growth in labor demand rather than a tight labor supply. Economic freedom, or lack thereof, can ...

The good news is that the first 20 years of the millennium saw overall increases in economic freedom around the world—with continuous improvement through the second decade. The bad news is that not ...

The ability to choose your job, start a business, own property, or decide how to spend your paycheck may seem natural to most Americans. Yet for billions around the world, the most basic economic ...

Freedom is the right to make your own decisions and guide your life as you please (for good or ill) in the absence of outside ...

In the Economic Freedom of the World 2024 Annual Report, the degree of economic agency enjoyed by people in 165 countries is assessed. The top three regions in terms of economic freedom, as of 2022, ...

For those who confuse correlation with causation, a friend would joke that playing basketball in the NBA makes you taller. Previous articles have shown that greater economic freedom correlates with ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday announced that the economic indicator in its 2025 World Press Freedom Index has fallen to an unprecedented critical low, prompting the global state of press ...

The 2026 Environmental Quality Index (EQI) highlights the United States as a leading energy producer while maintaining high ...