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Private or Public? Exploring USAID's Efforts to Help the Poor

| March 25, 2013 | Poverty

Having been recently convicted by Brian Fikkert’s comprehensive approach to poverty alleviation, I sat in on an event at AEI keynoted by Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). I was interested to see how the...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

How to Help Without Hurting

| March 15, 2013 | Poverty

Have you ever delivered turkeys to low-income households before Thanksgiving? I have. Did you know that such acts usually do more harm than good? I didn’t, until now. On March 9, 2013, Dr. Brian Fikkert, professor at Covenant College and executive director of...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

Sequester Rhetoric Reveals an Ideology of Dependency

| March 11, 2013 | Politics

March 1st has come and gone. Look around … make sure the sky hasn’t fallen, the buildings haven’t crumbled, unemployed masses aren’t mulling around on the sidewalks. Throw water in your face … make sure that you’re not dreaming. Am I being...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

Two Kingdoms: Millennials in the City of God and City of Man

| March 1, 2013 | Faith

Among the attendees at Values & Capitalism’s “Is the Good Book Good Enough?” event were about 20 college students, which invites the question: What place do Millennials have in a conversation about evangelical political engagement? As future...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

Finding Common Ground to Fix the Debt

| February 25, 2013 | Economics

Aptly named, last week’s “Common Ground” Summit—hosted by the Campaign to Fix the Debt—gathered representatives from 88 different organizations to seek consensus about how to approach the fast-growing problem of America’s mammoth national debt....
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.