Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Thomas Sowell: Who Is Racist?
Just how old is Thomas Sowell? I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are racists, ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Mindset Of The Left: Part IV
The visions of the anointed. At the heart of the left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves. That arbitrary and unsubstantiated assumption underlies a wide spectrum of laws and policies over the years, ... MOREThomas Sowell - The Mindset Of The Left (Part II)
Promoting envy and a sense of grievance. The political left has long claimed the role of protector of "the poor." It is one of their central moral claims to political power. But how valid is this claim? Leaders of the left in many countries have promoted policies that enable the poor to be more comfortable in their poverty. But that raises a ... MORE4 Ways You've Been Totally Misinformed About Drugs
by Ted Hesson. Whether it's the legendary "this is your brain sunny-side up" commercial or the haggard face of one of Jesse Pinkman's meth-slinging homies, we've all seen what drugs can do to us. Apparently, TV occasionally doesn't tell the truth, according
to Carl Hart, a neuroscientist at Columbia University.
As a matter of fact, a lot of the things ... MOREBenjamin Powell: Bangladesh Sweatshops Improve Lives
The reality is counterintuitive. U.S. companies are rethinking whether to continue sourcing garments from Bangladesh in the wake of the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory that killed hundreds of workers on April 25. If they do so, most Bangladeshi garment workers will be worse off than they are today. ... MOREDoug Bandow: America On Welfare
Great society needs to be replaced by free society. Living the good life on welfare. Even the Europeans recognize that they pay a high price for creating an increasingly dependent society. Denmark has been transfixed by the revelation of a 36-year-old single mother who collects more in benefits than many Danes earn at work, and has done so ... MOREPoverty Pros & The Crony Capitalists Who Love Them
by Bill Freeza. Yes, it looks like a wedding announcement out of The Onion, but when it comes to making a killing off the never-ending “War on Poverty,” the marriage of convenience between the financial services industry and federal bureaucrats is no laughing matter. The idea that government welfare programs could eliminate poverty, rather ... MOREJohn Fund: Minimum Wage Equals Maximum Confusion
Why it hurts the poor more than helps. President Obama made headlines in January when he called for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 and tying future increases to inflation. Politically, calling for a higher minimum wage is a winner. This week, New York’s state assembly voted to implement Obama’s plan locally. On the national level, ... MOREVIDEO: Buckley & Alinsky - Mobilizing The Poor
Saul Alinsky - The 2nd most influential community activist of all time.
Amy Payne: Busting 5 Myths About The Minimum Wage
It hurts, not helps, low-skill workers. When someone says “minimum wage,” what comes to mind? Do you think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single parent trying to feed several kids? While President Obama and other proponents of a higher minimum wage
want you to visualize that single parent, the truth is that a
burger-flipping ... MORECapitalism In No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages. It was only when governments intervened, either directly on behalf of workers or indirectly by empowering unions, that conditions improved. ... MORERobert Zurbin: Imposing Misery By Environmental Devotion
Green anti-humanism. On February 11, 2013, the Denver Post ran a guest commentary of great clinical interest. In the piece in question, Colorado State University philosophy professor Philip Cafaro advanced the argument that immigration needs to be sharply cut, because otherwise people from Third World nations will come to the United States and ... MOREFull-Body-Pat-Downs In America's Public Schools
How the war on drugs is a war on children. On a warm spring afternoon at American colleges, the intoxicating aroma
of surely medicinal marijuana will be floating like a soft caress in the
breeze, and hard-working students will be stocking up on amphetamine
cocktails to sharpen their overstressed young minds for the coming
exams. ... MOREWelfare State Swells During Obama's First Term
Food stamp recipients increased 11,113 per day. One way to mark the legacy of a presidency is to tally statistics, and at least one stat is not very flattering for President Obama: the number of Americans on food stamps has grown by 11,133 people every day during his first term. In 2009, when Obama took office, recipients of SNAP ... MOREBetsi Fores: New Study Refutes Minimum Wage Benefits
Minimum wage creates more, not less, poverty. A new study concludes that increasing the minimum wage will lead to fewer jobs rather than less poverty. “The disconnect between the empirical evidence and the claims of wage
hike advocates continues to grow,” said Michael Saltsman, research
director at the Employment Policies Institute, which ... MOREScott Holleran: The Bum, The Cop And The Facts
The moral of the story. This is about the barefoot Times Square bum bestowed with a pair of
boots on a cold November night by a policeman whose act of charity was
photographed by an Arizona tourist. The bum, it turns out, was seen last
Sunday on the Upper West Side. The new boots, valued at $100, were
nowhere to be seen. The policeman, ... MORE
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