Growth at Home, Uncertainty Abroad Sara Belz | January 13, 2016 | Economics Last month’s Federal Reserve announcement and global debt troubles prompt an interesting discussion on national institutions and their responsibilities. In December, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its plans to increase short term interest rates... Read More Sara Belz Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.
Don’t Give Up on Giving: How a Theology of Creation Informs Resilient Poverty Solutions Sara Belz | November 2, 2015 | Poverty Recently, Joe Coletti at The Federalist wrote about private giving in his reviews of Robert Lupton’s “Charity Detox” and Arthur Brooks’ “The Conservative Heart.” Coletti contrasts old concepts of charity with the efforts of people like Lupton, who founded the... Read More Sara Belz Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.
The High Cost of Aggressive Secularism Sara Belz | July 30, 2015 | Faith At the 2014 National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama stated that “no nation on Earth does more to stand up for the freedom of religion around the world than the United States of America.” I think this is true; no other country’s founding or legal history so... Read More Sara Belz Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.
Values & Capitalism Summer Conference 2015 Sara Belz | July 17, 2015 | Events, Favorite Events, Recent Events On June 26-29, over 200 students and professors from 55 Christian colleges gathered in Washington, DC for the fifth annual Values & Capitalism Summer Conference. The three-day event served as a platform for students to engage in discussion of pressing social,... Read More Sara Belz Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.
The American Dream in Crisis: What Can We Do About It? Sara Belz | June 23, 2015 | Society The research is piling up: children of poor Americans are disadvantaged. Their neighborhoods, parents, schools, and lack of community engagement hold them back from entering adulthood with the same opportunities that rich kids have. And by “rich” and “poor,” I don’t... Read More Sara Belz Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.