A new report from the John Locke Foundation’s Center for Food, Power, and Life gauges the extent of energy poverty in North Carolina and proposes several recommendations to return the…
American Enterprise Institute scholars led by Angela Rachidi explore a key problem tied to taxpayer-funded benefits.
Michael Tanner documents the challenges associated with rural poverty in America. The common image of poverty in the United States is a primarily urban phenomenon. This preconception helps shape the…
When Medicaid was established in 1965, it was not a sweeping guarantee of health care for all; it was a narrow commitment aimed at serving society’s most vulnerable: the disabled,…
Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner focuses on recent reviews of government programs that dole out free money. Interest in universal basic income has grown in recent years, and now…
Angela Rachidi takes aim at major problems within a high-profile federal government program. In the coming months, Congress is expected to reauthorize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the country’s…
HIgher tax rates on additional income are particularly harmful to productivity.
The U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.9% in the second quarter of 2022, according to the advance estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) this morning. This data…
A tweet went viral this week of a San Fransisco Walgreens store that appears to have nearly everything under lock-and-key. Of course, I am rephrasing these responses in a slightly…
Violent crime has spiked over the last year and a half, due at least in part to the hundreds antipolice protests that took place in the second half of 2020.…
Crime rates soared between 1960 and 1980 and remained high throughout the rest of the century, making fighting crime and restoring order national priorities. The burden of crime and disorder…
The first time crime really hit home for me was when a thug pointed a gun at a family member’s head while she was making an after-hours bank transaction. Thankfully,…