Abby McCloskey, George W. Bush Institute, Catalyst Winter 2017
"As the nature of family and work has evolved in the United States, so should policies that affect the individual taxpayer. Our labor laws and tax system should meet the needs of today’s families."
Abby McCloskey, Aparna Mathur, Angela Rachidi, National Review, January 9, 2017
"In our personal experiences and scholarly work, we see a policy environment that has missed significant opportunities to support families and foster economic growth. Conservatives in particular have been slow to realize the benefits of these policies, but 2017 offers the GOP a huge opportunity to change that."
Abby McCloskey, Dallas Morning News (Print), January 6, 2017
"Trump is wise to pursue economic growth, but he must not stop there. Improving the lives of forgotten Americans depends on going further than <his> 4 percent target. It will require thoughtful and targeted investment to improve economic opportunity for the people who need it most."
Abby McCloskey, GenNext Seattle and National Women's Conference, November 3, 2016 (SPEECH)
Abby McCloskey, National Review Magazine, Post-Election Issue, December 5, 2016
"It may be tempting for Republicans to believe that the gender gap is not a liability, given that they have won a national election in spite of a large one. But Trump’s victory is the exception, not the rule."
Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News, November 11, 2016
"In the coming days, President Trump has a crucial choice to make: Does he prioritize the red meat, populist reforms he promised on the campaign trail? Or does he prioritize reforms that have the highest potential of jumpstarting the economy and helping the "forgotten" Americans, whose imaginations he has so successfully captured and whose votes he has won?"
Abby McCloskey, Dallas Morning News, October 31, 2016
"Last year, U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack ruled the foster care system in Texas was “broken.” Most of the resulting efforts have focused on state and local-based reforms. But this overlooks the crucial role played by the federal government.
Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News, September 25, 2016
"It has never been more expensive for working parents to raise children. Republicans should take their cue from Trump and address this issue head-on."
Reihan Salam, Slate, September 14, 2016
"On the surface—and again, the surface is all we have right now—Trump’s paid maternity leave proposal bears a close resemblance to a very good one advanced by domestic policy analyst Abby M. McCloskey in National Affairs last year. McCloskey, a conservative in good standing, has served as an adviser to the presidential campaigns of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Donald Trump’s mortal enemy, the famously low-energy former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Her proposed maternity-leave program is simple, cheap, pro-growth, and business-friendly."
Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News, September 1, 2016
"In this polarized election year, there is something that unites Republicans and Democrats: the desire to give American workers a pay raise. The big question is how."
Abby McCloskey, The Blaze, August 16, 2016 (TV)
Discussing Trump, the economy, trade and immigration
Abby McCloskey, Forbes, July 26, 2016
"Clinton's efforts to double down on the Affordable Care Act, raise the minimum wage, ignore occupational licensing and raise taxes on working women would implicitly encourage even more women to leave the work force."
Abby McCloskey, National Review Online, July 21, 2016
"Hillary has rejected her husband’s New Democrat platform, which led to one of the most successful economic periods for American women. Free trade, fiscal responsibility, and welfare reform were followed by rising wages in the 1990s and by the highest labor-force participation rate among women ever reached in America: 60 percent in 1999. Instead, she has taken a page from President Obama’s playbook for economic growth, accepting as the new normal the weakest economic recovery since World War II. That means that Obama-era weakness would continue, which isn’t great for women (or men, for that matter)."
Abby McCloskey, Larry Kudlow Show, July 9, 2016 (RADIO)
Discussing yesterday's jobs report and supply-side tax reform
Abby McCloskey, Forbes, June 30, 2016
"America’s economy has all but sputtered to a standstill. GDP growth in the first quarter was an anemic 1.1%. After seven years of the Obama Administration, liberals have few people to blame but themselves. Which is why it is curious that some high-profile liberals are busy denouncing conservative economic policies to jumpstart the economy, such as tax cuts."
Abby McCloskey and Aparna Mathur, Forbes, May 25, 2016
"At first blush, the drop in workforce participation rates seem to have similarly impacted men and women. The employment rate for American females in their prime working years, 25-54, has dropped from 74.9% in April, 2000 to 70.8% in April 2016. For similarly aged men, participation rates dropped from 89% to 84.9% during the same time period. Yet relative to their peers globally, American women may have prematurely plateaued in their labor force participation rates."
Abby McCloskey, National Review Magazine, May 23, 2016
"A majority of Republican voters (55 percent) support paid leave for new parents, as do two-thirds of the American public, according to a recent AP-GfK poll. Instead of shying away from paid leave, conservatives should articulate the shortcomings of the Democratic approach and present America with a better alternative."
Abby McCloskey, Ripon Forum, April 2016 edition
"Since 1960, the share of households headed by single parents in the United States has more than tripled. According to the Pew Research Center, 25 percent of households (8.6 million) were headed by single mothers in 2011. Another 6 percent of households (2.6 million) were headed by single fathers."
Abby McCloskey, Forbes, April 7, 2016
"The logical outgrowth of the victim mentality is that we need to be protected and guarded and turn inward. We can no longer afford the freedom and openness and international cooperation that marked America in the past, and arguably were the source of our greatness to begin with.."
Jim Tankersley, Washington Post, February 26, 2016
"“The Obama administration made things worse than they needed to be, by prioritizing a progressive agenda over what the economy actually needed,” said Abby McCloskey, a middle-class focused conservative economist who advised GOP presidential candidates Rick Perry and Jeb Bush before each man dropped out of the race."
