Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore is an economic consultant with Freedom Works. He received a bachelor of arts degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a master of arts degree in economics from George Mason University.

Columns by Stephen Moore

Hillary Clinton asks for four more years

"People are working harder and longer just to keep their heads above water. And to deal with the costs, the everyday costs, the costs of basics like childcare and prescription drugs that are too high. College is getting more expensive every day. And wages are still too low and inequality is too great. Good jobs in this country are still too hard to come by."

June 26, 2016

America’s sluggish economic growth the new normal

Well, it turns out Annie had it wrong. The sun won't come out tomorrow.

June 19, 2016

Republicans calling Donald Trump racist playing into hands of Democrats

In the last month or so both of the presumptive presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have said stupid and even offensive things.

June 12, 2016

STEPHEN MOORE: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders will destroy 10 million jobs

Like a crazed serial killer, the liberal green groups are celebrating their "victory" of putting America's major coal producers out of business — to say nothing of the tens of thousands of miners placed in unemployment lines. Several thousand more mining jobs were lost last month.

June 5, 2016

STEPHEN MOORE: Hillary Clinton’s enablers on the right

Is there anything more laughable than all the former members of the George W. Bush brain trust torching conservatives for getting behind Donald Trump? The stale complaint is that conservatives are tossing overboard their "core principles" when they get behind the fairly elected Republican nominee.

May 22, 2016

STEPHEN MOORE: Why tax rate cuts work

Hillary Clinton took another sniper shot at Donald Trump's tax reform plan last week by calling it "a tax cut for billionaires" like him. She even argued that Mr. Trump "spends" trillions of dollars on the tax cuts. Question: How do you spend money on a tax cut?

May 15, 2016