measures to reduce poverty permanently
Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner reports on progressive city governments that paid residents for doing nothing in particular. Once the provenance of policy wonks and tech entrepreneurs, universal basic…
Angela Rachidi of the American Enterprise Institute recently offered Congress ideas for improving a major federal program. As this committee considers a Farm Bill for 2023, I wanted to highlight…
One of the nation’s newest philanthropic efforts, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and one of its oldest, the Rockefeller Foundation, are accepting registrations from local, private organizations around the country with…
John Hood wrote this week about the instructive philosophy of Cicero. Wait, don’t go yet. Cicero wasn’t just the “Roman orator and statesman … contemporary (and enemy) of Julius Caesar…
How can that be? It’s because of free enterprise in a society that values and protects God-given rights. I wrote a couple weeks about the falling price of light as one of…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute devotes his latest National Review Online column to the misunderstood concept of globalization. If there has been a bogeyman in politics this year, it…
The Buncombe County Commissioners’ meeting stretched long again. Added to the printed agenda was an award given by the Local Government Federal Credit Union in conjunction with county commissioners across…
It is also the antipoverty tool most unknown to the UNC-Chapel Hill Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity. The center’s fate may be up in the air, but its track…
I recommend this brilliant commentary with lots of references on why government anti-poverty programs aren’t working.
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that the State Board of Education has endorsed the idea of replicating successful public charter schools. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal asks why many…
View in your browser. What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler. Why…
Mitch, George Leef recently discussed the “crucial distinction between actually helping the poor and what politicians usually do, which is spending money or enacting laws that are supposed to make…